Word: scoring
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Last week, the U.S. got its first chance to hear Honegger's giant-sized theatrical score. It ran for 75 minutes with no intermission, and put a considerable dent in the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's budget. Besides an augmented orchestra, it employed the 185-voice Westminster Choir and a group of soloists which included Metropolitan Opera Sopranos Nadine Conner and Jarmila Novotna, and two actors-Ballerina Vera Zorina, dressed in a white gown, as Joan, and Raymond Gerome (in tails) as Brother Dominic...
Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) was highly effective as theater, if not always exciting as music (sometimes the score sounded like background for a Norman Corwin radio thriller...
Szigeti had been letting it "run through my head" for four months, but it was so knotty that he propped the score up before him in San Francisco's opera house. Of one movement, a furious crossfire between piano and violin, Szigeti said: "It is the ugliest thing going. It is terrific." After that came a third movement as lyrical as something out of Puccini, followed by a fast, gay finale...
...TIME, Nov. 3), who admitted later that he wasn't quite up to snuff, completed only 14 of 24 passes (two for touchdowns), passed and ran the ball 279 yards for a new Rose Bowl record. When the gun ended it all, Michigan had won by the same score* (49 to 0, the biggest in Rose Bowl history) by which it had won the first Rose Bowl game, back in 1902. It had also outscored Notre Dame against a common foe for the third time this season. Fritz Crisler rested his case...
Eliot encountered few obstacles as the squad from Adams succumbed under a 38 to 24 score, but the Leverett team had to come from behind with a last quarter spurt to subdue the Kirkland Deacons, 34 to 32, in evening battles...