Word: scorelied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cards won it four times and the Dodgers twice-and it was clear to all but the die-hards of mathematical chance that one of them was going to do it again. As far west as San Francisco last week, Dow-Jones tickers carried the inning-by-inning score to boardrooms, and fans clustered around radio sets as St. Louis, nursing a two-game lead, came face-to-face with the Dodgers in a three-game series in Brooklyn...
Last week, musicians who saw the same expression on Producer Gillis' face again had no trouble guessing whose score they would find on their rehearsal racks...
...Tommy guns and tear gas, red-capped Special Police roared up to the campus, but found nothing to do-although the students were cutting classes, they were causing no trouble. Bored, the cops drifted over to the university football field. Students invited them to get up a team. Final score: Students 4, Police...
...music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain's fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia) among other things, had three operas and a score of other works to go. Last week, Serge Koussevitzky gave his Berkshire Music Center fans a chance to catch two Britten premi...
...Maupassant's Le Rosier de Madame Husson. A bumpkin is chosen King of the May because in the village there is no girl virtuous enough to be Queen, eventually winds up on a roaring toot. To this, Composer Britten hitched a witty, somewhat Peter and the Wolf-ish score, in which each instrument seemed to portray (or mock) a character on stage. There were other Britten trademarks: well-fitting songs and exciting ensembles. Even so, some found Albert's humor, at least in Tanglewood's production, so mordant that it often verged on the grim, and Britten...