Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhere in the hereafter a little man with a stack of statistics figures the odds on the number of consecutive races which one crew can win. Since 1952 this little man has willed Navy's oarsmen a string of 31 consecutive victories over the best crews in the Eastern United States...
...another, French-Tunisian negotiations have ground on in Paris, sometimes almost grinding to a halt. In the climactic stages. Premier Faure himself headed up the French negotiators. The nominal head of the Tunisian delegation was portly Premier Tahar Ben Amar, a wealthy pro-French landlord. But the real Tunisian string-puller, behind the scenes, was handsome, saturnine Habib Bourguiba, exiled leader of Tuisia's nationalist Neo-Destour Party and an authentic political genius...
...Jones and Bruce Thurmond, both seventies players also, will fill the number three and four positions, and Bob Ornsteen and Roger Fleischman round out the first string squad of seven...
...charmers as he does into his more famed operas (Der Freischutz, Oberon, Euryanthe). Other notable new releases: Brahms's German Requiem (soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Museum Orchestra conducted by Georg Sold; Capitol, 2 LPs); Giuseppe Torelli's Twelve Concert!, Op. 8 (Stuttgart Pro Musica String Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt; Vox, 3 LPs). Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York PhilhaononicSymphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos (Columbia); Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. I (Nathan Milstein...
Sunday's concert opened with a new work, Victor Yellin's Passacaglia for String Orchestra. Over a repeated bass passage, Yellin has devised an extended development that builds to unusually powerful climaxes; even his use of dissonance seemed subordinate to the overall dramatic pattern. The rhythms had a tendency to excessive four-squareness, at least on first hearing, but sincerity and intense emotion kept the Passacaglia nearly always exciting...