Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Organ Book", Fantasy and Fugue in G minor, Toccata and Fugue in D minor), Mozart's A major Violin Concerto, and Wotan's Farewell and the Fire Music from "Die Walkure". On Monday night in Jordan Hall, the Orchestra of the New England Conservatory of Music is to perform the prelude to John Knowles Paine's "Oedipus Tyrannus", three excerpts from John Alden Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator", and other interesting works...
...best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight so slight as to be imperceptible, pressure on the bit so gentle that Vast, Si Murray or Olympic can perform with silk threads instead of reins. The secret of dressage lies as much in the delicacy of the rider's hands as of the horse's mouth. Major Tuttle is an expert violinist. Olympic is now valued at $15,000. He cost $1. Like Vast and Si Murray...
...this play is the result of getting to the point of attack with the fullest possible blocking strength with the least possible delay. On this particular play, the left end will charge down the field to try to block the safety man and, if the rest of his mates perform their blocking duties correctly, the Fighting Irish will have scored on another perfect play...
More interesting and difficult work, however, is done by the mechanics in the scientific departments. Besides having to perform incredibly delicate and elaborate jobs the craftsmen must know enough engineering and science to be able to tell the researchers whether or not and in what way a projected machine will run. Professors and mechanics work together closely on the design and construction of aporata and the mechanics have a high degree of skill and esprit de corps...
...that ranks with the season's best. For the radio celebrities, revolving stages and philharmonic orchestras that are current cinemusical trappings, Producer Darryl F. Zanuck has substituted a story that prances like a mustang, half-a-dozen songs with hit possibilities, a cast of capable young troupers who perform their functions with a contagious enjoyment...