Word: minuet
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While the guests sipped & supped at ten round tables, Concert Pianist Jose Iturbi and Barriee Breeskin, one of Washington society's favorite orchestra leaders, took turns at the piano. After the last toast, the President strolled to the piano himself, rendered a competent Paderewski Minuet in G and a work of Chopin whose title escaped him. General George Marshall and Presidential Adviser John Steelman joined the three piano players for a friendly argument about music. "I'm nuts about Chopin," said the President...
...slave who made himself (in 1804) an emperor, then a tyrant, only to be duped by his mistress and shot in the back. With Marie (The Medium) Powers as the rejected wife who came back faithfully to bury her husband, and George Balanchine to tune up a satirical little minuet, Troubled Island should have had no trouble...
...slight piece and would have been far less of a sacrifice us a warmer-up than the Handel Concerto Grosso in B Flat. Otherwise the program was interesting and consecutive. Malcolm Holmes arranged the Purcell suite from separate dances which he found. With the exception of the Large-Minuet, all the movements contain delightful duets for violin and flute. Howard Brown played with skill but was too frequently obscured by the concert master's able, but over-enthusiastic, performance...
...wedding itself, strict protocol had been laid down. But what was to have been a stately minuet turned into a wild jitterbugging jamboree that will be remembered in Rome for years...
Mozart: Symphony No. 33, K. 319 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Columbia, 5 sides). As symphonies go, one of the pygmies among Mozart's giants-but worth having for the bouncing vigor of the minuet and the fine sounds of a great orchestra. Recording: good...