Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novelty was provided by a greatly expanded orchestra, including many new faces, and blessed with a huge and excellent string section. The strings found a deserved complement in the virtuosic wind group which pulled off Stravinsky's exacting Symphonies for Wind Instruments with breath-taking precision and intonation. Nor did Mr. Senturia let technical concerns overshadow the equally crucial matters of vitality and awareness which should be the major strengths of any good amateur ensemble...
...first half of the concert, the orchestra divided, with the winds performing the Stravinsky and the strings showing their stuff on an arrangement of Bach's Ricecar a 6 from the Musical Offering. The main virtue of this arrangement was that it provided an effective showcase for the shining string tone the orchestra has developed. This was unfortunately offset by a thickness which often obscured the contrapuntal writing in favor of a rich sound, and an occasional slickness and unfaithfulness to style. While avoiding the purists' contention that nothing of Bach's should be performed in an arrangement--after...
Physically, the Crimson has never been in better shape. With the return of third-string center Tony Watters, coach Yovicsin has three entire teams at full strength for the game...
...Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some 40 colleges, including Notre Dame and Oklahoma. Says Marlin: "We picked U.S.C. because of its high scholastic rating, and because the team was down and we were offered a real challenge." End Marlin and Guard Mike both made the first string last year as sophomores. Lean-bellied and heavy-thighed, they stand 6 ft. 1 in., weigh 220 lbs., and only their mother can tell them apart for sure...
...toughen their fighting fingers, contestants had long practiced such tricks as pulling a string of five coal carts up an incline, or tugging along a 4½-ton truck. Top challenger Willi Lehner, 36, a 230-lb. stonemason from Unterpeissen-berg, was fond of hanging suspended by his finger from the claw of a derrick. Dressed in their holiday leather knickers and green felt hats, the wrestlers wound their legs around steel stools (wooden chairs would snap like toothpicks), and at the umpire's command "Auf!" tried to pull their opponent's hand across a line drawn...