Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suited to present-day mediums of performances, has been the transcriber's prize scapegoat. Johann Sebastian Bach has suffered more at the hands of conductors and who-knows-whats than should happen to even a composer. The Brandenburg Concerti, for example, are written for small groups of string instruments, yet they have been presented, as is also the case with the Corelli Suite for Strings, with entire symphony or chestra string sections. It is true that the music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems to have consisted of is a rewriting to fit larger, more pompous groups...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat, Op. 127 (Budapest String Quartet; Columbia; 10 sides). The first of Beethoven's five great "last quartets" in a version less rugged than the Busch Quartet's (Victor), but superior in suavity and finish...
...season with a match with the grads on Friday, while the game that was scheduled with Yale last week had to be cancelled when Eli authorities advanced the closing date for athletics. Andover, Tufts, Exeter, and the University of Maine have fallen victims to the victorious tennis team. This string of wins is definitely better than the .300 average racked up by the netters last year...
Soldiers of the First Army stood on a hilltop. They looked out over a broad valley, through which a river twisted like a piece of careless string...
...past ten years she has been training horses on her own. Washingtonian T. T. Mott, whose string she now handles, refuses to buy a racer without her O.K. Last summer Horse Owner James V. Stewart urged Mr. Mott to buy a hand some young jumper. Judy demanded a trial run around the local Laurel course. She mounted, skimmed around the course until the last fence, where the horse crashed to the turf, head first. When an ambulance reached her, Judy was uncon scious. Coming to, she muttered: "Mr. Stewart, we don't want to buy your horse...