Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novice students conductor; unfortunately, the sound lacked a matching professionalism. For example, the dynamics of the first and third movements ventured little beyond mezzo forte and forte; throughout, there was hardly any of the nuance that made Layton's performance of the Mozart Symphony No. 26 (E-flat) so pleasant. One could even argue that Biss's slow initial tempo magnified the introduction to the symphony disproportionately. Still, Biss was working with a strange orchestra, and his performance was a promising start...
Royals and commoners had a rip-roaring time. Highlight of the pre-nuptial festivities was a wingding for 2,000 guests in Windsor Castle's Waterloo Chamber, which is only slightly less spacious than the battlefield itself. Fueled by a lavish buffet, 1,600 bottles of a pleasant, non-vintage champagne and rivers of stronger stuff, the guests twirled and twisted until breakfast. To a man, the roistering royals approved warmly of Alexandra's match. "Thank goodness," whispered one, "she's not marrying one of those awful double-barreled German names...
...town of Nijmegen, the pianist played to a hall full of Germans, and as all who attended had foreseen, there was more in the air than just music. For the 1,000 Germans who crossed the border of Ru binstein's conscience, the recital was a stirring but pleasant penance-a chance to listen to a great Jewish pianist play Beethoven. For Rubinstein, it was a delicate compromise, a gesture of understanding, a test of the heart...
Sandy Walker, in particular, has been a pleasant surprise this spring. Walker wasn't a starter on last year's squad and began this year in the number eight position. But he swept two challenge matches to win the number six position and has held it ever since...
Stewart recalled that he had spent many pleasant moments with President Griswold over the past ten years. "Whit Griswold has been a champion of the best in intellectual life in Yale University and elsewhere," he said. "As president of Yale he has given it all the advantages of a vivid personality and a restless mind...