Word: ops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Triste; Prelude to The Tempest (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Volume VI of the definitive Sibelius Society set, magnificently performed and recorded. These miscellaneous pieces, ranging from Op. 9 to Op. 109a, are nearly all bleak, bardic, Nordic, at times sound as relevant to contemporary Finland as an air-raid alarm...
...unfortunate that the Stradivarius Quartet concert scheduled for Wednesday evening had to be postponed. The quartet was to play Beethoven's Quartet in E flat, op. 12; a Wolzan-Kodaly Serenade for two violins and viola; and Quartet No. 4 by Milhaud. It is to be hoped that this concert will be given later in the season...
...claim on the Government was not for payment on the second shipment but for balance due on the whole 5,000 carbines [when all had been delivered]. Ketchum testified that Morgan "refused to allow the others to go until he received the money for the first shipment" (House Reports, op...
Beethoven: Quartet, Op. 18, No. 2 (Coolidge Quartet; Victor: 7 sides). First modern (and topnotch) recording of an early-vintage Beethoven quartet...
...marked tendency on the part of winter sports enthusiasts to go to Finland. These tourists comprise all nationalities, including Poles, White Russians and Czechs exiled from their habitual vast skiing grounds. The Finnish Tourist Agency, which still remains open in centrally located offices on the Avenue de l'Opéra, reports it is doing a brisk business, with steadily rising interest in Finnish tourist resorts. Reports that volunteers are leaving here for Finland are emphatically denied...