Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Munch is such a popular leader. First of all he is one of those few conductors doing their best to destroy the image of the "super-man maestro." When he conducts, he is working with an orchestra, he does not stand on a pedestal and dictate to it. He never plays favorites among the players, as many of his colleagues are accused of doing. A tyrant conductor usually develops a clique of musicians who will support him, and help him keep control, but Munch never needs such a clique. One of the violinists in the Philharmonic described...
...every Munch performance, there is a certain amount of "calculated risk." That is the orchestra never is absolutely sure that everything is going to work out perfectly; consequently they are on edge, always awake, and always sensitive to the wishes of the conductor. This contrasts with the technique of a man like Bruno Walter, who sometimes repeats a few measures so many times that the orchestra becomes bored, and, of course, their playing shows it. Munch never takes a big chance in any performance, but just enough is left in doubt to create the effect he desires. Thus, in performance...
...next two weeks, the HTW will offer Cambridge an opportunity to see its last and most enjoyable production, "The Tempest"--a production which manages to reap the full harvest of marvels contained in that play. They Workshop has never yet failed to repay, with interest, the exacting price Shakespeare demands of his actors. This is the last HTW show primarily because the leading members of the organization are graduating. But the HTW will continue to be a part of the local scene for some time to come. After a profitable season last summer operating Brattle Hall as a professional repertory...
...least Tufts was easy to beat in practice scrimmage earlier this year; and easy to beat last year. In lacrosse, however, as in any other sport, one can never be sure of these all-to-gain-and-nothing-to-lose teams...
...Tennessee Valley Authority had to touch off 681 tons of TNT before Lect's instruments could feel it, though. The blast ripped out one side of a mountain to supply crushed rock for a TVA dam. Present seismographs, says Leet, have never recorded an atom bomb explosion...