Word: raffely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Stuyvesant Quartet-four NBC Symphony men-leaned on the famed Tschaikowsky Andante Cantabile. When the New Friends recorded the piece with an enlarged ensemble, they named it Droshky Drag. They retagged other classics Bach Bay Blues, Shoot the Schubert to Me, Hubert (ballet music from Rosamunde), Riffin' Raff (Cavatina by Raff). The Overture to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (he was a barber) became Barber's Hitch; Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe, Foster Chile'. Since last August, New Friends six recordings have tidily sold 20,000 copies...
...named Templeton Strong turned down a proffered job with the swanky law firm of Strong and Cadwalader (now Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), tucked an oboe under his arm, and took a boat for Europe. There, hobnobbing with such hall-of-famers as the late Franz Liszt, the late Joseph Joachim Raff, the late Edward Macdowell, he made a minor name for himself as a talented U. S. composer...
Married. Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 40, onetime husband of the Duchess of Windsor; to Mary Kirk Raff ray, 41, childhood friend of his onetime wife; by special permission after a judge waived Connecticut's five-day notice and blood test laws; in Fairfield. Mrs. Raffray, who introduced Ship-Broker Simpson and Wallis Warfield (then Mrs. Earl W. Spencer) in 1925, was divorced three weeks ago from Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, Manhattan insurance broker...
...miscarriage of justice as the Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trials must have seemed to Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Te, Japan's bland puppet. To Red Russians there is nowhere a more detestable body of men than the "White Guards" in Manchukuo, a group of ex-Tsarist soldiers, aristocrats and riff-raff who live just outside the Soviet Union border, expecting momentarily and scheming year after year for "the collapse of Bolshevism...
...episodes in the story. Also on the various episodes in the story. Also on the program is the 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in D minor by the late nineteenth century American composer, Edward MacDowell, Mr. Howard Goding is to be the soloist. MacDowell, a pupil of Joachim Raff, wrote this work while staying at Wiesbaden in the summer of 1885, and although most of his compositions were in the line of tone painting, he deviated from his usual course in making this particular Concerto unrelated to any program material. Soon after he had completed this, he came...