Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Music, graduated to the Brno Opera Orchestra, and while there started "experimenting with playing ordinary trumpet parts an octave higher than written-just as a hobby." The hobby, Scherbaum thinks, helped him develop the breath control and facial muscles necessary for the baroque trumpet. Hired by Furtwangler as solo trumpet for the Berlin Philharmonic. Scherbaum returned to Czechoslovakia after World War II in 1951 settled in Hamburg, where he quickly became the highest paid and most famous member of the North German Radio Orchestra...
Overwhelmed with the spirits of the evening, the reunioners cheered loudly and gave standing ovations for classmate Irving Fine's work "Blue Towers" and 16-year-old Joela Jones' solo in the feature work by Rachmaninoff. Others also managed to get to their feet when "The Twist" inspired the younger set to give a small dancing exhibition...
Died. Aida de Acosta Breckinridge, 77, founder of Manhattan's Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, a stylish Spanish-American who while a Paris schoolgirl became the first woman solo balloonist in 1903 by piloting a prop-powered dirigible across the Bois de Boulogne, displayed the same pluck in her lifelong welfare work, raising more than $3,000,000, though nearly blind herself from glaucoma, for the U.S.'s first major ophthalmological institute, opened in 1929, and in 1945 its first national eye bank; after a long illness; in Bedford...
With the score 13 to 4, the varsity ten finally came to life, producing three goals in the last five minutes. Captain Grady Watts pocked up his first goal of the afternoon on a solo dodge. Misfielders Joey Prahl and Tink Gunnoe brought the Crimson total to seven before the final...
...Danburg, 55, and given its premiere at the University of Florida last week, the Kennedy inaugural address took 55 minutes to perform (Jack Kennedy himself took 14), called for a 70-piece orchestra and more than 300 choristers. Critics agreed that though Kennedy had been eminently satisfactory in his solo effort, the choral reprise made rewarding song...