Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them condescendingly. Stealing bologna-what else? How? Well, just like he always did. His two pals, who were 12 and 13, had lowered him through the skylight, waited until he passed out some sausage and $19 from the till, and then had started hauling him back up to the roof. But the rope had broken, and they...
...Scarborough. Instead of starring for the rebels, Nye-who hopes to win the election after next, and doesn't want the blame if the Socialists lose this time-stepped up to praise Attlee, not to bury him. But it was still Bevan the rebel who raised the roof...
...local intelligentsia-artists, music students and professionals-turned up to hear a dozen or so musicians play a program of choice chamber music. It would have been quite all right with the musicians if no listeners had turned up at all. For the concerts called "Evenings on the Roof" (now in their 14th season) are "for the pleasure of the performers, and will be played regardless of audience...
Evenings on the Roof started on a real roof. It was the idea of a critic named Peter Yates and his wife, Concert Pianist Frances Mullen. The Yateses, who like chamber music, began inviting musician friends to their hilltop studio, to play strictly for fun. Word spread, musicians brought other musicians, and the Yateses soon had a full-fledged musicale on their hands. Nowadays, Evenings on the Roof is run by the musicians themselves. Ticket sales (average admission: 60?) cover expenses, and the musicians, many of them drawn from the Los Angeles Symphony and from Hollywood studio orchestras, play...
...musicians try to schedule at least one Los Angeles "first" for every concert. This sometimes leads them into fairly deep musical waters (e.g., unfamiliar works by Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Anton von Webern). They do not give a hoot for the critics. The Roof's printed programs run a back-page column of critical comments, listed under two headings, "Figs" and "Thistles." Sample thistles on the back page last week: "Dull Roof Concert Dredges Up Bores" (Los Angeles Times); "Within the seven minutes it takes to perform, [a quartet by Webern] is spare, economical, terse and austere, and seven...