Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually reliable Landon Clay started on the mound for Coach Lloyd Harper's charges and left at the end of the seventh with the score 6-1 against him. The home team struck for a run in the first inning to take an early lead, but Springfield came back with two in the second and from then on the winners couldn't be stopped. They added two in the fourth, two in the seventh, and one in the ninth off relief hurler John Hanson...
...most familiar complaint of modern composers is that they don't get a hearing. On that score, Igor Stravinsky has little to complain of. In the past month, packed houses in Manhattan had heard everything from his popular Petrouchka (1911) to his dusty-dry Symphony in C (1940). Even his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex had been uncovered for the first time in 17 years. Bobbing, crouching and flapping his arms like a grotesque little bird, Composer Stravinsky had conducted several performances of his music himself...
...ovation. When the curtain went up, the audience was at first more taken with the simple blue & white brilliance of the set (by Isamu Noguchi) than with the somber opening chords of Stravinsky's music. But Orpheus turned out to be a brilliant wedding of score, choreography and setting. It was not, however, an incitement to riot, as its famed predecessor The Rite of Spring had been in Paris, 35 years ago. Composer Stravinsky, in white tie & tails, took his bows onstage with the dancers, his feet crossed in his best Position...
Stravinsky's music has, always been as carefully machined as a row of ball bearings, and sometimes no more expressive. But listeners last week found his Orpheus score full of some of the most exciting and dramatic music he has written in the past 30 years. His critics accuse him of writing dry music; he retorts that his favorite composers-the men before Bach -wrote dry music...
Last week the N.A.S.P. announced the ten winners. Highest scorer: 16-year-old Patricia Pilliard of Milwaukee, who got 84 of the 100 questions right (median score...