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Word: rakings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rake's Progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Listeners to the Third have heard Thomas Mann speak on George Bernard Shaw; T. S. Eliot on Virgil; Joyce Cary and Henry Green on novels. Stravinsky's new opera, The Rake's Progress, was broadcast uncut from Venice, and the Third has won itself a slightly risque reputation by presenting, unabridged and unabashed, the Restoration plays and Chaucer. The Third pays somewhat more attention to time schedules than it used to, but a show will still be broadcast in its entirety even if it means running a few minutes over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Third's Fifth | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...strategy they hope will send them back to the country's helm. Winnie was in fine, old-fashioned form. He told Britons that the Conservatives could not promise a quick cure for the country's ills. "The road will be hard and uphill," he said. "After a rake's progress . . . the resulting evils cannot be cured by a parliamentary vote or a stroke of the administrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Elections | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...found Stravinsky's music a bit flat, or too intellectual, for opera. The sets were criticized as second-rate and rather un-English, and the first-night conducting, which was handled by Stravinsky himself, as distinctly not the work of a Toscanini. But the critics agreed that The Rake's Progress was a solid success, one of the outstanding 'musical works of the decade, a model of form and craftsmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melody in Venice | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

Next stops for The Rake (in Italian, French, Flemish and German versions): Milan, Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, Cologne, D¨usseldorf. U.S. production? Stravinsky has not yet decided where or when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melody in Venice | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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