Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Beyer, a comparative newcomer in Harvard music circles, gave a piano recital Sunday afternoon that was, in nearly every respect, competent and satisfying. His touch was sufficiently heavy and sold for the more somber passages of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Handel, but he could also produce the light, fragile tones so necessary for his group of Scarlatti sonatas...
...Manhattan office because "I can get more work done when I'm alone." He has no social life, shuns the theater, movies, TV, but is a wide reader. A wealthy man (his Amerada stock alone is worth $8,000,000), he makes no show of it, wears a somber uniform of dark clothes, has no car, shuttles to his Manhattan office by subway from the staid old Plaza Hotel, where he has lived for 25 years. "I'm not gregarious," he says. "I don't have many friends and no particular friends. I have business associates...
...uninitiated in art, the Museum is a somber place. One of them has called it "the greyest and grimmest collection of medieval plaster casts in America." The visitor passes caskets and kings, prophets and snarling gargoyles, and even one "wise" and one "foolish" virgin. Off the main foyer is a pleasant patio with a pool, overlooked by the Brunswick lion. This is a copy of the statue erected by Henry the Lion, founder of Munich...
...work is commissioned and the spirit of the work itself. In the case of Mr. Piston's latest two symphonies, however, such a connection, seems to be suggested. The third Symphony, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Fund was dedicated to the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky. That gripping and often somber work won the Pulitzer Prize in the year of its premiere...
Debating the Issues. "I hope that the Republican leaders will permit us to discuss our somber foreign problems on the plane where they belong-not on the plane of demagoguery, but rather on the plane of serious factual discussion and in terms of-'" alternatives that are real rather than epithets which are false...