Word: pistone
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...fast tax write-off certificate for a big new expansion program. American plans to spend $47 million for 25 Douglas DC-7s (bigger and faster than DC-6s), hopes to start flying them on its routes late next year. The DC-7s, said American, will be the last piston-engine transports it will buy. After them, the airline hopes to get into the jet age (see below...
...here, say the British, who are flying their jet Comet on commercial routes. But Chairman Fred B. Rentschler of United Aircraft, whose J57 Pratt & Whitney jet engine is probably the most powerful in production, disagrees. In plain words, he cut through the fog of confusing claims about jet transports. Piston planes, said Rentschler, will still be flying the bulk of commercial travelers in 1956, and jet fleets will not come until several years after that...
...know whether a composer always intends that there be a connection between the spirit of the occasion for which a work is commissioned and the spirit of the work itself. In the case of Mr. Piston's latest two symphonies, however, such a connection, seems to be suggested. The third Symphony, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Fund was dedicated to the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky. That gripping and often somber work won the Pulitzer Prize in the year of its premiere...
...symphony exemplifies Mr. Piston's well-known mastery of the classical forms, a mastery which includes freedom in their manipulation as well as overall adherence to them. The first movement, marked Piaccoole (pleasant), opens with a smooth, easy-going melodic line. Although is the climaxes this melody is transformed into a vigorous and exciting rhythmic force, the movement as a whole has a restrained air about it and fully bears out its unusual appellation...
...classical forms; but the material which comprises it is anything but classical. The main section, written largely in irregular meters, is a wild affair with much brilliant display by the brasses. One of the contrasting sections is a sentimental waltz tune. The movement also includes one of Mr. Piston's rare samples of folk Americana, a country fiddler's tune...