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...Pomp and Circumstance, Coward...
...work is "slightly more civilized-maybe too civilized." As played under George Szell's direction last week, it emerged as a massive, melodious composition, almost Straussian in its traditional conservatism. In its three movements it alternates between moods of surgingly sensuous lyricism and a kind of heraldic pomp reminiscent of Walton's own Orb and Sceptre march, written in 1953 for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. The symphony's greatest strength lies in the raw dramatic power that never seems to desert Walton. But on balance there is more pomp than circumstance in the Second Symphony, more...
...Pomp and Circumstance, Coward...
...Consent, Drury (1) 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (4) 4. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (3) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5) 6. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (6) 7. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (7) 8. Shadows in the Grass, Dinesen 9. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (9) 10. The Lovely Ambition, Chase...
...occasion. Last week India's President Rajendra Prasad recalled pointedly that, back in that day, "the circumstances were different." But the unfond memory was not permitted to mar his granddaughter's visit. Although observers rated the welcome accorded President Dwight D. Eisenhower as more spontaneously enthusiastic, the pomp and the grand occasions befitting an empress were not denied Elizabeth though she was an empress no longer...