Word: scherzo
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...opens on drama (Pulitzer Prizewinner). JOURNEY'S END-those well-bred Englishmen are still at war. IT'S A WISE CHILD - funny complications caused by a fake pregnancy. CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE-splendid drama (Tchekov, Anet, the Quinteros), splendidly acted at top price of $1.50. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE - ludicrous scherzo about a speakeasy and an innocent but willing beauty. THE CRIMINAL CODE-the laws of God are not on the statutes. JUNE MOON-magnificent satire on songwriting by Ring W. Lardner & George S. Kaufman. Musical: WHOOPEE, FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS...
...flat. Innovations: George Gershwin's "An American in Paris,'' Deems Taylor's "Jurgen," Edward Burlingame Hill's Symphony in B Flat, Ernest Bloch's rhapsody "America" (with 500-voice chorus). Albert Coates of London, as guest conductor during August, has promised his own Scherzo from The Pickwick Papers, subtitled "The Elopement of the Spinster Aunt...
...third movement (Allegro)--in reality a Scherzo of the most fantastic type, though not so marked--might well typify the riddle of the Universe. We indeed 'see through a glass darkly,' and yet there is no note of despair. Amid the sinister mutterings of the basses there ring out, on the horns and trumpets, clarion calls to action. While we are in this world we must live its life; a living death is unendurable. The Finale, Allegro maestoso, is a majestic declaration of unconquerable faith and optimism--the intense expression of Beethoven's own words, 'I will grapple with Fate...
...rendered at the Pops concert tonight, starting at 8.15 o'clock: Overture to "Mignon" Thomas Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Grandados Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes a Les Chasseresses b Intermezzo et Valse lente c Pizzicati d Cortege de Bacchus Suite from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn a Overture b Scherzo c Wedding March Symphonic Poem, "Dause Macabre" Saint-Saens Oriental Fantasy, "Islamey" Balakirev Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
...musical genius of one man. In a hodge-podge of Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...