Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leonard Bernstein put on quite a show yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall. He also conducted an early Mozart Symphony-No. 25, in G minor-but that was something of an appetizer, and if it, was played a bit monotonously, with very little range of volume, nobody remembered by the end of the concert. This was because, in the meantime, Bernstein, the Boston Symphony, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, a soprano, and an alto had joined in a performance of Mahler's Second Symphony, a work which engages its performers in varying combinations for seventy five minutes...
...Midnight and Jeremiah, which Walt Disney was interested in screening. North rewrote the story into a screen version for Disney and a novel (So Dear to My Heart) for Doubleday. Disney had the story tested by Sindlinger and North obligingly made the Workshop-indicated alterations (which he says were minor). Since then the book has sold 25,000 copies. North was "genuinely converted," he said. "People who scoff at poll-taking . . . are scoffing at democracy. . . . It is a humbling but enlightening experience. . . . I can think of several opinionated American authors who might benefit by the experience...
...look like lambs?" queried the first poster. This eminently polite question was followed by another which brought a slight grin to the songster's face and a minor quaver to her clear, bell-like tones...
...been particularly strong. The opener with M.I.T., was no more than a warm-up, as was the last pre-exam tilt with Brown. In both cases a few individual stars on the opposing side were not sufficient to overcome well-spread Crimson strength. Army, supposedly tough, fell in a minor upset at West Point as several heretofore unheralded performers turned in victories to clinch the meet...
...strength of Other Voices Other Rooms, Novelist Capote is safe from smothering in laurels. The book is a literary contrivance of unusual polish, better than the brightly ghostly short stories that gave its author a minor reputation. But it is immature and its theme is calculated to make the flesh crawl...