Word: scorelied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final score was Adams 4, Kirkland 3, with the Deaconn making it a battle down to the last match. Ray Pierce, exvarsity man playing for the Gold Coasters, beat Larry Zeltlin in the finals to break the tie and win the meet...
...could guess how Shostakovich really felt about the idea. By all the evidences he and the artistic high command in the Kremlin were singing in the same key again. Shostakovich had been allowed to leave the country and while he is away Moscow moviegoers are enjoying his latest score, a travesty on Yankee Doodle. Presumably the Kremlin had also taken the customary steps to persuade Shostakovich and his six junketeers that it would be best to come right home...
...Harry Truman insisted, "basically the Congress and the President are working together and will continue to work together for the good of the country. We are going to agree on a lot more things than we disagree on. And when the final score for this Congress is added up, some of the selfish pressure groups are going to be pretty badly disappointed...
...movement is so gigantic it usually overshadows the other movements. That was certainly the case last weekend. The Orchestra faithfully pledged through the first three movements. There were occasional groans from the audience when one of the brass players (hired specially to meet the requirements of Mahler's bloated score) went berserk. But starting with Nan Mcrriman's contralto solo in the fourth movement, things began to pick up, and by the time the Finale came along, everyone had forgotten the preceding movements...
...Salome" is an extremely orchestral opera, with a great deal of writing for brass and woodwinds. It was a treat to hear the Met Orchestra, which at times finds no difficulty in muffling simple oom-pah-pah accompaniments, perform such a difficult score so well...