Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...View. But Leeds has had its troubles. Last February, two U.S. companies released identical recordings by the National Philharmonic and Bolshoi Theater choruses and orchestras of Shostakovich's Song of the Forests: only one of them was Leeds-licensed. A few months later, two companies brought out Violinist David Oistrakh's expert performance of the Brahms Double Concerto...
...good Bavarian Catholics, Gretl Gugel and Antonie Saam, both 11, and ten-year-old Marie Heilmann were much inspired by the movie The Song of Bernadette. They talked about the miraculous appearance of the Virgin at Lourdes as they walked home to the small village of Heroldsbach (pop. 1,100) where they lived. Suddenly one of them let out a scream. As they described it later, first she, then the others, saw a light and a vision of the Virgin. "Mother Mary came to us," they told their parents when they got home...
...some 15,000 fans who turned out for the $87,637 Hambletonian did not agree with Bi Shively's figuring. They made Sharp Note their third choice, bet heaviest on Coca-Cola Heir Walter T. Candler's three-year-old Duke of Lullwater, and on Hit Song, owned by the Arden Homestead Stable and Lawrence B. Sheppard...
...start of the first heat, Sharp Note "broke" (i.e., went into a gallop, had to be reined back, lost time until he resumed trotting), but he regained enough ground to finish tenth behind winning Hit Song. Facing perhaps his last chance ever to win the Hambletonian, old Bi gently explained the situation to young Sharp Note...
...better than his Santa Anita mark. A 19-to-20 odds-on favorite in the third heat, Sharp Note finally brought the crowd around to Bi's original conclusion. Lagging back in the field until the last turn, he again showed his wallop in the homestretch, beat Hit Song by two lengths, going away. Sharp Note's purse...