Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philharmonia Orchestra, Muir Mathieson conducting; Victor, 6 sides). In addition to Laurence Olivier's fine soliloquizing, music lovers can hear on this album how good movie music can be. English Composer William Walton did a lot in Olivier's Henry V to lift the standards of film scores; in Hamlet he raises a craft to an art. The score never intrudes, but accompanies the spoken word like an orchestra accompanying the piano or violin in a concerto. Recording: good...
Letters & Goal Posts. When Yale forged ahead in the second quarter, 7-6, Harvard's mannerly rooters sat subdued until the final period. Then their team, which had been either very good or very bad all season, got its dander up. Two Harvard touchdowns made the score 20-7. Just before the gun, a wave of substitutes ran in (a Harvard man does not get his letter unless he plays against Yale-and one play is enough). As the tide turned toward Harvard, some of the students went native, shot up crimson flares that looped across to the Yale...
California's Golden Bears took the opening kickoff, and marched 59 yards down field to score. But after that the Bears began to play like cubs. They got fumbleitis: the ball squirted out of their hands five times. California was lucky to win, 7-6. Reminded of his one-point quip, Coach Waldorf mumbled: "This ought to teach me to keep my big mouth shut...
Rossini's score is not particularly original or inspired, but it is highly tuneful and rhythmic--the kind of thing you whistle for weeks after you've heard it. And after a few precarious measures at the very beginning of the show, the orchestra, under Goldovsky's direction, played with spirit...
During the first two chukkers, the Crimson seemed to be on the way to repeating last October's episode in which it trounced the men from Williamstown by a decisive 6-1 score. During the half, Williams came to life and in the third and fourth chukkers outscored the Crimson 6-2 to take the lead and the game from Harvard...