Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd, predominantly young with a sprinkling of greyheads, rose to its feet, cheering wildly. It clapped to hot music and spirituals sung by a Negro quartet. It listened, hushed, as Paul Robeson sang Ol' Man River, and applauded the Negro baritone when he declared: "I want to share with you the spirit of triumph I feel in the strength of Henry Wallace. He has marched into the Southland and given hope to Negroes all over the land...
...years, Edinburgh has taken the place of Austria's Salzburg as the music capital of the world...
...relax. With justifiable pride, Rudolf Bing could say: "We have sold a quarter of a million tickets in three weeks, not for a sporting event, but for Mozart operas, a Greek tragedy [John Gielgud's production of Robinson Jeffers' Medea], Hamlet in French and high-class orchestral music...
Last week, Edinburgh's second annual festival ended. For three weeks thousands of music lovers had heard the greatest of music, from Bach to Bartok, played by such orchestras as Amsterdam's superb, 65-year-old Concertgebouw and Rome's famed Augusteo. They had heard the Mozart piano concertos, performed unforgettably by their finest living interpreter-Pianist Artur Schnabel. They had seen Mozart's operatic masterpieces, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan Tutti, given with polish by a company that is fast becoming the best in the business-Britain's Glyndebourne. They had heard superlative choral...
...Gide Hamlet. ("A moving experience," reported the New York Times's Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades and dancing in West Princes Street Gardens, below Edinburgh Castle...