Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past fortnight, New Yorkers have been having their first look at daylong television. Beginning at 7 a.m. Du Mont's WABD flickers along all day until the regular evening program starts. The programs are strongly reminiscent of daytime radio: setting-up exercises, Broadway gossip, popular music, women's news-everything except soap opera...
...work, a viciously dissonant and twisting symphonic poem, Marinaresca e Baccanale, by a little known Italian contemporary named Giorgio Federico Ghedini. The others-Berlioz' blood & thunder Roman Carnival Overture, Franck's D Minor Symphony and Ravel's Bolero-were the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics...
Composer in the Wings. The first music Victor de Sabata ever conducted was a composition of his own, at the Milan Conservatory-at the age of twelve. Six years later, La Scala produced his first opera, Il Macigno. When Toscanini brought the La Scala orchestra to the U.S. on tour in 1920-1, he played De Sabata's symphonic poem Juventus on every program. Now better known as conductor than composer, De Sabata insists with a smile that his is "a beastly profession." He swears he would rather have his two children, Elios, 17, and Eliana, 13, be "thieves...
...steps of the greatest college library in the world proved to be a perfect sounding-board for the music of the band and the cheers of the crowd, and, thanks to a temporary microphone system, even the speeches were audible. Head Coach Art Valpey spoke first, and while he "felt it would be inhospitable to say much about tomorrow's game," he assured the crowd that "they could be proud of the team...
Other night life, mostly in Boston, includes an immense number of "Rooms." For those who want a floor show with their drinks and music the Darbury Room is fairly cheap, and the Oval Room, with an "All-College Dance," is fairly expensive. For the collegiate atmosphere, with plenty of group singing, etc., the Fife and Drum Room is a good bet, while probably the lowest-priced in the whole field of dine-dance-drink is the Campus Room...