Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, Wallace got up at his now famous press conference during the Progressive Party's Philadelphia convention and implied to the assembled newsmen that they should be ashamed of themselves for not risking their necks to get news as George Polk had done. Hence instead of getting across the point William Polk had wanted emphasized, that Lindley's action was, he believed, motivated by George Polk's relationship with Newsweek, Wallace instead only succeeded in antagonizing a large number of influential reporters...
...Presto of the Partita in B Minor, his fingers literally clicked over the strings, picking out every sixteenth note, even giving each a slight vibrate. Loveliest of all was the Andante of the last work. Schneider never overdid the sentiment, and the steady beat of the pedal point through the melody held the music to a moving, but ever-calm reserve...
...High point of the concert were the five Spanish songs by anonymous sixteenth-century composers. The two for Christmas, "No la devemos dormir" for its wonderful tenderness and "Rin, rin, chin" for its powerful devotion, provided an exciting contrast in religious feeling. But the delicate subtlety of this group were not sufficient preparation for the Hindemith and Copland with which the program closed. Although they fitted in far better than would any Classical or Romantic music, several of the Hindemith songs were spent adjusting the audience to modern dissonance and counterpoint. In the last selection, Copland's pictorial "Lark," Paul...