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Russian Igor Stravinsky reharmonized the English tune which Congress in 1931 made the U.S. national anthem. Stravinsky's Russianized version of The Star-Spangled Banner is muscular and musicianly, but audiences don't like it too well. Last week Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony played first its standard arrangement, then Stravinsky's caviar-spangled version, asked the audience to vote its preference. Result: 203 for, 351 against Stravinsky...
...Muscular, swart-tempered, turbulent José Iturbi last week did nearly everything he is good at, except conduct an orchestra or fly into a high Hispanic dudgeon. Gab-gifted, he spoke as a citizen-about-to-be on the Justice Department's I am an American radio program. A neat, nimble pianist, he gave one of his infrequent Manhattan recitals. A fledgling composer, he heard the first performance of his rambling, Spain-inspired piece, Soliloquy, in Cincinnati, then joined the Cincinnati Symphony in a crashing performance of the Tchaikovsky "juke box" piano concerto...
...primarily a portraitist, Corbino concentrates on the sweeping gestures and bodily movements of the men, women and horses that he paints. Attendant weakness of Painter Corbino's work is that his classically muscular people and horses lack individuality, look very much alike. Though he belongs to a generation of revolutionary painters, Painter Corbino snorts scornfully at modern...
Hanover, N.H., January 18--Dartmouth's famous and muscular Outing Club found itself on the losing end of the annual Winter Carnival bargain tonight with no prospect of women and with countless posters on hand advertising the double attractions of the cancelled social event--sex and skiing...
...Greene "socializes" his patients with parties, games and plays. They are given simple, mechanical tasks to develop muscular coordination, are also taught to speak into a microphone, for it serves as a focus of attention. As soon as a patient enters the hospital, he is given a complete physical examination and recordings are made of his speech so he can gauge his progress. A new clinic to study the brain wave patterns of stutterers will soon be opened in the hospital...