Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malcolm H. Holmes, director of the Harvard, Radcliffe and Wellesley orchestras, will then conduct the Pierian Sodality of 1808 in five orchestral selections: Sinfonia, "To Thee Alone be Glory," by Bach; Symphony No. 39 in E Flat, Minuet: Allegretto, by Mozart; Polka from "The Bartered Bride," by Smetana; Polka from "The Golden Age," by Shostakovitch; and March from "Peter and the Wolf," by Prokoflef...
...first cannon flashes. Then the two formations gambit and answer with feints, approaches, withdrawals which seem as tentative and formal as a minuet. Then they begin...
Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant (Joanna Graudan, pianist, with the Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos; Columbia; 3 sides; $2.50). Pre-Victorian showpiece, faded but not without charm, brilliantly played by the Latvian-born wife of the orchestra's first cellist. On the fourth side, an elegant minuet from Lully's The Temple of Peace...
...dark, wiry, bug-eyed Larry Adler, son of a Baltimore plumber, won a harmonica contest sponsored by the Baltimore Sun. He shrewdly sized up the judges as serious musicians, played a Beethoven minuet instead of the popular tunes submitted by other contestants. Mouth Organist Adler went to Manhattan, at 16 played a bit in Flo Ziegfeld's Smiles, became a protégé of Eddie Cantor, whom he slightly resembled. In his early stage turns, Larry Adler wore ragamuffin garb, a conventional uniform for harmonicists. But after C. B. Cochran took him to London in 1934 nothing less...
...Einstein played a simple program sitting down: two movements of a Mozart sonata, an Indian song and a "Russian Dance" by Frida S. Bucky, a Bach minuet for an encore. His able accompanist-pretty Mme. Gaby Casadesus, wife of Concert Pianist Robert Casadesus (unpronounceable, rhymes roughly with "has a canoe")-rippled discreetly at the piano. Dr. Einstein proved that he could play a slow melody with feeling, turn a trill with elegance, jigsaw on occasion. The audience applauded warmly. Fiddler Einstein smiled his broad and gentle smile, glanced at his watch in fourth-dimensional worriment, played his encore, peered...