Word: minueting
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Wednesday Evening, June 7 *Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "Anacreon" Chernbini *Minuet (for String Orchestra) Bolzoni *"Madam Butterfly," Fantasia Puccini "Manhattan" Colla Midday--Night Shadows--Playtime (Conducted by the Composer) *Air, "Coleste Aida," from "Aida" Verdi Soloist: DARIO MAIANI, Tenor "Italia," Rhapsody Casella *Malaguena Lecuona *Perpetuum Mobile Paganini Played by the combined string sections *Spanish Dance de Falla *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Ickes, who is as tough as anyone in handing out verbal socks, though a little tender on the receiving end, proceeded to tag individual columnists with some typical Ickes' characterizations. Walter Lippmann "would never even break his wooden sword unless he should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous...
Paderewski has always regarded himself as a composer, and still spends much of his time composing. Aside from, his famous Minuet, which he wrote while a student in Vienna more than 50 years ago, the musical public has paid little attention to Paderewski's composition. But his Symphony in B Minor and his Polish opera, Manru, have been performed in most of the big musical centres of the world...
...Cleveland's painting, Watteau's favorite blonde model and a boy are mincing a lazy minuet while a company of softly shining young ladies and gents look on. This unselfconscious little idyll pleased Frederick the Great, Francophile King of Prussia, and he had his ambassador buy it. Until 1918 it hung in the collection of the royal family at Potsdam. Clevelander Beaumont got it through Dealer Joseph Duveen...
...Paris; even then he knew only enough music to fill one program. Debutant Paderewski had to go back and learn more pieces before he could appear again. But this he did with dogged determination, and soon the musical world began to realize that the composer of the famous Minuet could also play the piano a little better than anybody else in the world...