Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of its name, however, the Orchestra showed little affinity for the performance of Baroque music. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 fared somewhat better than the Handel D Minor Concerto Grosso. In the Bach the exotic coloring of the woodwind passages, marvelously executed by the section, overshadowed such outstanding lacks as the weakness of the bass line (in which, besides, the usual keyboard continue was lacking) and the technically inept handling of the violin obbligato by a mercifully unnamed soloist...
...Museum last week, 98 paintings from 17th century Holland went on display. The brilliant survey was borrowed from museums and private collections across Europe and the U.S., will be shown next year at Toledo and Toronto. As the color reproductions on the following pages demonstrate, the exhibition's minor pieces and masterpieces alike were made by men who had the skill and will to paint precisely what they saw. The Dutch of that day evidently saw things in sharp focus, with a calm objectivity foreign to subjective 20th century eyes...
...same three organization also plan to play Bach's "B Minor Mass" in concerts April 22, 23, 24, and 26 in Boston. It will be the first time in five years that the Glee Club has performed this work...
...most positive action which came out of the controversy was the creation of a now Office of the Dean of Students. By June the trustees had become sufficiently worked up over the case to feel Nassau Hall needed some minor adjustments. By taking the social responsibility out of the hands of the Dean of the College and giving it to a special man, they felt they would end future misunderstandings between the administration and its charges...
...simplified by a blaze on January 15, 1930. The fire attracted 4,500 onlookers and forty fire engines. Everyone watched but no one moved since flames were shooting twice the height of the building. When the inflreno subsided, over 300 complete football uniforms, 100 baseball pants, and miscellaneous minor sports equipment were listed among the missing...