Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's provinces, wiry little Harmonica Player Larry Adler was a bust. The British apparently didn't think there was enough musical nourishment in a mouth organ to make a full meal. With two London concerts coming up, Larry Adler, whose mouthings are a big draw in the U.S., arranged a special press concert to persuade reviewers that he is something more than a campfire musician...
...Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang with all vocal beauty the extended and difficult solo passages of the Copland work. Mary Crowley accompanied the Malipiero piece on the organ, and a brass choir from the Boston Symphony Orchestra helped out in the Hindemith...
...more complex but not a whit more expressive. Malipicro's is the richest of them, matches most nearly with music the grandeur of its verbal text. It might seem even more adequately Virgilian than it does if, orchestral instruments were to be substituted in the accompaniment for the pipe-organ, a graceless and lumbering instrument...
...Choral Music in Memorial Church: The Collegiate Chorale, Robert Shaw, Conductor; New compositions: Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning" for chorus a cappela and mezzo soprano solo; Paul Hindemith, "Apparebit Repentino Dies" for chorus and 11 brass instruments; G. Francesco Malipiero, "La Terra" from Virgil's "Georgias" for chorus and organ...
Little Parties In. The signers agreed that the new State Council-China's "supreme organ on state affairs" pending popular elections-should include 17 members of the Kuomintang* and four each from the other three groups. There were vacant council chairs for the Communists on terms nobody in China expected Communists to accept: 1) recognize the authority of the broadened Government in Nanking; 2) let go their intermittent grip on North China rail lines...