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Word: orpheus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stravinsky: Orpheus (the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Victor, 8 sides, 45 r.p.m.). The tight, dry, subdued but dramatic music for the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballet performed with great success at Manhattan's City Center last year (TIME, May 10, 1948). Performance and recording: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Radio première of Stravinsky's Orpheus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Personally I am concerned with the squirrels though. There are lots of pigeons, more famous ones, in lots of places, e.g. Venice. But the real Harvard squirrel is something entirely different, even from the Boston Common variety: the genius loci had the same effect as Orpheus' lyre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Again the Owl | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...they get to Leverett House Yale men will hear the Whiffenpoofs themselves, as well as another Yale choral group, the Orpheus and Bacchus Society, at Kirkland. It is through the Crimson Key that the HDC will open its doors to Yale students with its production of Amphytrion...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Crimson Key Society Will Paint Town Red for Blue Infiltrators | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...audience had never seen Orpheus treated so splendidly. Veteran Salzburg critic Max Graf was not being intentionally sarcastic when he said that Bruno Walter's severe 1932 version "was only greater vocally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orpheus in a Riding Academy | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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