Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who like dramatic orchestral readings of Bach organ works, Columbia has released another Bach-Stokowski transcription, this time a brilliant performance of the D minor Toccata and Fugue. Columbia offers in addition this month an excellent collection of Negro spirituals sung by the Wings Over Jordan Choir who extemporize the different parts in an attempt to retain the spontaneous improvisation which gave birth to these songs...
...Yardling minor sport teams do battle on three fronts this afternoon, the golf, tennis, and lacrosse squads seeing action. Coach Don Poddie's linksters open their season against M. I. T. at Oakley Country Club at 2 o'clock, Dick Dorson's racquet-wielding charges face Milton Academy at Milton, and George Hanford's stickman meet Lawrence Academy at the Business School Field...
When Sir Stafford Cripps came to India, C. R. led the moderate faction in the Congress that favored accepting the proposal with minor changes, leaving details to be settled later. If the Congress had voted before the fall of Singapore, before the fall of Burma, and before the Japs began bombing India itself, C. R. might have carried the day, but he was overruled by a faction of defeatists and alarmists who did not want to accept power and its responsibility on the eve of invasion. So, paradoxically, the Congress rejected Britain's offer ostensibly because...
Restless, grasshoppity Comic Eddie Cantor underwent a minor operation in a Manhattan hospital, made his weekly broadcast from bed, but had to close his musicomedy Banjo Eyes, because his doctor insisted that he keep off his feet for a while...
...Bach "Magnificat" is a series of alternating choruses and solos, set to the words of the Virgin Mary's prayer. Except for the lovely "Suscepit Israel" there is nothing particularly virginal about the choruses which include some of the most powerful Bach outside of the B Minor Mass...