Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last night before reaching shore, passengers followed the old tradition of putting on ship's variety shows. The "Volendam" ended one trip with a skit called "North Atlantic," featuring the music of "South Pacific"; a "Scythia" production led with the verse...
...architects, Dean Kerby-Miller added, will try to draft remodeling plans in accordance to recommendations turned in by students last year. Heading the list are plans for a periodical room, a smoker, wash rooms, and expanded facilities for music listening. She added, however, that the space problem in the library is still sovero due to the need for record listening equipment, and that a new location must be found for record files and phonographs...
...this room are produced the station's 25 hours a week of live studio shows. These are mainly hobby, music, puppet, and nature programs which can easily be run off back-to-back in different sections of the same room. Often as many as six consecutive shows are screened with only 30 seconds' worth of break between programs in which to scoot cameras, scenery, lights and microphones into their new positions. The only serious mishap so far in these live shows came last spring in the "Living Wonders" nature program when an annoyed rattlesnake from the Boston Museum of Natural...
Petrillo threw out that solution. Last week he staged a showdown at the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza hotel. There, Pianist Victor Borge, a member of both Petrillo's union and A.G.V.A., has been burlesquing opera-singing and making fun of music in general. Petrillo was not amused. He sent Borge a terse telegram: leave the A.G.V.A., or play without an orchestra. Borge meekly complied. Said he: "It is easier for me to get along without the A.G.V.A. than to do without an orchestra...
Munch seems to take considerable liberties with his classical music. Long dramatic pauses, and abrupt changes in tempo sound a mite strange. In the third movement of the Beethoven, there were moments of uncertainty in the Orchestra, signs of the difficult change of interpretation. But it is nothing serious, and Munch's first concert indicates that Symphony Hall is going to be rocked back on its heels in the weeks to come...