Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White Tie & Overalls. In Texas one of Hendl's most spectacular achievements was his engineering of a musical rapprochement between Dallas and its bitter rival, Fort Worth, 35 miles away. One afternoon last month Hendl, in overalls and a farmer's straw hat, conducted a successful children'...
Hendl believes both that "Bach should be heard more," and that "Jazz and show music contain examples which . . . can only be called good music . . . and will find a permanent place in our musical culture." Hendl plans to serve his listeners a menu made up 65% of old masters, 35% of...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 (the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). The Sixth illumines little of the musical method of Shostakovich that the Fifth did not highlight as well or better, and adds a little circusy trash at the end. Performance and recording: good.
In the way of games were such things as Atomic Energy Kits (complete with radioactive screen and uranium ore), Fotokits (with negatives of George Washington, Roy Rogers, Stan Musical, and Rita Hayworth), ping-pong firing Sub-machine Guns ("harmless to bulbs and bric-a-brac"), and a Milton Berle puppet...
WHRB's LP recording of the Lowell House Musical Society's Acis and Galatea is certainly a bit of good luck. The blurb on the back of the envelope tells us that the broadcast of last spring's performance was recorded as an experiment. It goes on to say that...