Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHRB will broadcast classical music from 8 P.M. to 12 Midnight every night during Easter Vacation. (C) M L 5047 14.5 Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto #2, (C) L 5309 33.7 Calippa, String Quartet in G Minor, (A) Ang 45001 13.2; Bach, Easter Oratorio, (Bach...
...week they could be heard. The occasion was the election of a new Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament). First indication of trouble to Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai (Labor) Party was the refusal of popular ex-Premier Moshe Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish Waiters' Union (who boasts that in 1906 in Warsaw he led the world...
...Staffordshire, England, the son of the owner of England's first rubber-heel factory, Lieberson started his career by studying classical music after the family moved to the U.S., went to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. He composed everything from a symphony to pieces for a string quartet before deciding that a composer-at least of his caliber-"could not make a living in the U.S." He took a $50-a-week job with Columbia just a few months after CBS bought it. Later, as Director of Masterworks, Lieberson almost single-handed built up Columbia...
Statecraft & Stagecraft. With a female eye for pageantry and a female solidarity with a woman both hated and admired by historians. British Biographer Jenkins has painted a string of brilliant miniatures of her heroine. She maintains that the Queen had a kind of magic ("a quality of incantation") about her by which she managed to unite state, nation and the reformed religion in one person. How else explain the almost mystical response by the London mob to her coronation progress through the streets? Elizabeth, crying "God 'a mercy" to her people from beneath a canopy held by knights...
...fact is that excellence tends to breed excellence, and for this reason a long string of individual stars have come to Harvard over the years, giving Harvard an often spectacular top five as well as an astonishing number of National Intercollegiate Champions. Until Yale's fine victory this winter, Harvard was the only college ever to win the National Team Championship--ten times--and in the past few years the names Ufford, Heckscher and Sears emphasize Harvard's striking dominance...