Word: raving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beethoven was the first composer to make use of ugly sounds in abstract music, the first to make notes speak in everyday prose, to stamp and rave, and stand still to make philosophical statements, and Pianist Schnabel was temperamentally capable of bringing all of these qualities into line with Beethoven's more appealing side. Beethoven was also the first composer to become a bourgeois hero and one of the first upon whom the stupefying epithet "great" was popularly bestowed, an event that forecast the beginning of the present sorry condition of concert music-during the last hundred years...
...become an increasingly important part of undergraduate life at Harvard. Up until this season drama has played a key role in the stepped-up stage activity. A new Eliot House Drama Group enjoyed overwhelming success in all its productions and HDC's major performance, Death of a Salesman, drew rave reviews. At the same time, however, the local music groups did not stand by idly...
...Most Happy Fella and $20 for Damn Yankees, but a whole series of surefire new hits were on the way. Opening next week, Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, has a million-dollar advance sale, is virtually sold out through March. Bells Are Ringing, with Judy Holliday, has rave out-of-town notices and a $750,000 advance. And the new Ethel Merman musical, Happy Hunting, which will probably have a record $1.5 million advance before it opens in December, should provide equally happy hunting for scalpers...
...Kate Hepburn, I don't think she was depressed with the preview audience rave about her performance...
...Russians entered the piano contest for the first time since the war-highly skilled and even more highly touted. One was Lazar Berman, 26. whose performance in the eliminations got rave reviews ("a stormy and sometimes savage nature but with absolutely sensational qualities"). Berman practiced from 9 a.m. to midnight, with time out for meals, went to bed with bleeding fingertips. He thought he played his final concert "rather well. But I always feel I played less well than I could." The second, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 18, who "stupefied" a critic with his technique and profound insight and his colleagues...