Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sang, and the noises elbowed each other like a musical Babel. Behind a boxed hemlock hedge a soprano and contralto sang a duet from Aida, beyond another hedge a section of cellos rehearsed the minuet from Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F Major. In the Music Shed on the greensward a Brazilian conductor, who spoke no English, sign-signaled a student orchestra through a too-briskly gaited Afternoon of a Faun. Koussevitzky observed: "Maybe fine conductor for Brazilian music but he needs to be teached to change approach for European music." In Tanglewood's garage...
...only new building in Hiroshima was a Roman Catholic church, raising its simple, spireless two stories above empty, bombed acres. In the church's tiny backyard shed, an organ played while children clapped their hands and sang a Japanese kindergarten tune...
...golf course, perhaps the world's toughest, curls like a giant fishhook along the east Scottish coast, its fairways pocked by traps deep as bomb craters. Roads and railroads run in & around it, and on the famed 17th hole the players have to drive over an enormous coal shed. Last week, in the British Open golf championship, the local boys, who knew the course, the wind and the weather, had a lot in their favor...
JINNAH: We have got the first installment of Pakistan without shedding a drop of blood. I know the Mussulmans are all ready to shed blood, but is it necessary when methods of negotiation are still open...
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Koussevitzky uses four times as many musicians as Bach intended, which may scare the purists away. The recording, made in Koussevitzky's music shed at Tanglewood, Mass., is just about perfect. Performance: good...