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The excellences of the Glee Club and Choral Society are so abundant that one almost takes them for granted. But last night their precision, vitality and complete immersion in the music set even higher standards. Perhaps their superlative performance was inspired by G. Wallace Woodworth, Davison's successor, who left...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: The Davison Concert | 3/31/1954 | See Source »

Writing of Grant Wood's painting Midnight Ride of Paul Revere in your March 1 issue, you say ". . . it lacks every grace save precision and is as meticulous in execution as a Flemish altarpiece." Perhaps, but no horse . . . ever galloped with his two front legs stretched out in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Mozart's Due in B-flat is numbered 424 in the Kocchel catalog, but it sounds much carlier. Mozartean good spirits are here in abundance, but the work lacks a melodic and rhythmic inventiveness. Mr. Fuchs and his less famous but thoroughly accomplished sister reached the heart of the music...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: John and Lillian Fuchs | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Midnight Ride of Paul Revere displays the strengths as well as the weaknesses of Wood's approach. It pictures a tidy, table-top model rather than the natural world (genre painters have a weakness for making all things resemble still lifes), and lacks every grace save precision. Yet it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

The seven women in the chorus do not fall victim to the pitfalls so common in choral speaking: faulty timing and a lack of harmony. Their precision is achieved mainly through the skillful direction of Theodore Field. He seldom allows the seven to speak as a whole, preferring instead to...

Author: By Richard H. Uliman., | Title: Eliot's 'Murder in Cathedral' Opens | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

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