Word: soloings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Posthumous Justice. The explanation was partly sentimental: most of the solo artists and conductors took no fee, but specified that the money should go to Bartók's sick widow. But Bartók's closest friend and fellow Hungarian, Violinist Joseph Szigeti (rhymes with spaghetti), insisted that there was more to the Bartók revival than that. Said he: "It's not planned but spontaneous. It has an element of the bad conscience, like all posthumous justice...
...great fellow, and seems an even greater one by contrast-fair as a star when only one is shining in a show. He repeats his floppy Wizard of Oz scarecrow dance; he wickedly burlesques ballroom dancers; and in the show's and the season's most fetching solo act, he does a perfect soft-shoe routine while poking delightful...
...reason for the upset was that the Fliers, a notoriously hot-and-cold team, were lulled into their coldest night of the season. Saul Mariaschin took over Gray's usual role of high scorer with 14 points and sewed up the contest with a solo freezing exhibition in the last two minutes...
...tennis court, to have someone to practice with. She is a four-time New Orleans women's champion. Son Alfred Jr. would have none of it, hustled back to his six-hours-a-day piano practicing, and became at 16 the youngest musician ever to solo with the New Orleans Symphony. But son Dick liked the game, soon learned all his mother's tricks, and a few besides...
...somewhat sterile part. The other 45 actors named in the program are mainly character bit players who are competent but have little chance to become outstanding; perhaps Rex O'Mailey was most noticeable because of his Gilbert-and-Sullivan-like song in the first act (the only solo, incidentally, not sung by Brynner or Miss Martin...