Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics, like other critics during her 14-city tour, had mixed reactions. The Times-Herald found that "the fresh and brilliant luster of two years ago has been exchanged for a warmth and depth of tone that the music lovers found exciting." The Washington Post admitted some improvement but added tartly: "Miss Truman is too much of a vocal beginner to appear in public...
...ended in 1936 when Bill Benton resigned, filled with a sudden zeal for public service and good works. He went to the University of Chicago as vice president, bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in partnership with the university, also picked up a few other businesses (including Muzak, which pipes canned music into restaurants and cocktail lounges). Shortly after World War II, he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of selling the U.S. to the world with the Voice of America. Chester Bowles, who left the ad business several years after Benton, went to Washington himself as chief...
...drama department of the Boston Conservatory of Music will present the play "Outward Bound" by Sutton Vane tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. The public is invited. --From the Boston Traveler, December...
...dogs and Englishmen, Old Rudyard himself, and assorted fans of the esoteric dance, all absent Tuesday night from the new Boston Dance Theatre at 31 Hemmenway Street, would have reveled in "Music and Dances of India," brought to occidental footlights by Lakshimi Wana Singh. Those debutantes, patrons of the beaux arts, and bullied husbands of ripening patronesses who answered muster at the opening offering of the newly-formed Boston Dance Society felt slightly confused, like this reviewer, but on the whole pleased by this curtain raiser of the New Boston Dance Society...
...Brahms, Bernstein really let himself go. Teetering on the edge of his platform, he milked every drop of romanticism from the music, but without the syrup which enthusiastic conductors too frequently incur. Lenny danced and Brahms was terrific...