Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When first returns from Missouri indicated that the state might go Republican, Truman exclaimed: "Wow! I think that calls for a concert." He slid behind the chrysanthemum-bedecked piano, tinkled out Paderewski's Minuet, followed it with gay waltzes. At 9:30 p.m. Vice President Wallace, whose doggedly devoted campaigning had brought him both sneers ("the Johnny Appleseed of 1944"), and cheers (louder at Madison Square Garden than those for Truman), became the first to "concede" a Democratic victory. But Harry Truman kept his thin mouth closed. When Tom Dewey conceded defeat at 2:15 a.m. (C.W.T.), Truman hailed...
...Senate staged a stately little theatrical as rigid and rehearsed as a minuet. Designed to impress 1944 voters, the production played five matinees to half-filled galleries...
...Chinese Hamlet. The audience arrived at 8. The theater was "cleared of trash left from the afternoon performance" by 8:30. The curtains parted at 9. The cast wore false noses in an attempt to look Occidental, acted to Handel's Largo and Beethoven's Minuet in G. At 11:15 the play was only half over, but Atkinson left because "the ricksha boys hate to go over the hill in the dead of the night." His verdict: "Not yet ready for Broadway...
Directed by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, the combined orchestra played several selections between the choralists' appearances. On the orchestras' program were Overture in C Major by Bach, the Minuet from Ravel's Sonatine, and Men-delssohn's Overture to Fingal's Cave...
...orchestra itself, immensely improved by a Radcliffe invasion of the string section, will play a Bach suite in C major, a Minuet by Ravel, and last but not least, the brilliant "Fingal's Cave Overture" by Mendelssohn. From what I heard in Sandors last night, the new faces in this year's composite orchestra will make up, visually and aurally, for the loss...