Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another technicolor saga of nineteenth century industrialism bites the dust at the U.T. this week. After the Pony Express and the first railroad had made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...
Second prize went to Nicholas Van Slyck '44, for his original piano concerto in E flat minor. A "String Ensemble" composed of a hot sax, a pace setting piano, and a guitar took third place...
Less pretentious but in its own way just as enjoyable is the Beethoven String Guartet Opus 18 No. 6, one of the most spontaneous and delightfully humorous of the early quartets, to which the recording by the Coolidge Quartet (Album M-745) does full justice. . . . Also of a genial and unpretentious nature is the Corelli Concerto Grosso No. 11 in B-Flat, in dance suite form, recorded on a single Victor record (No. 12587) by Arthur Fiedler and his Sinfonietta. The finding of this concerto by the scholarly efforts of Mr. Fiedler is typical of the great practical service...
...extremely interesting section of the program is to be devoted to chamber-music by Corelli and Mozart for two violins, cello, and organ continuo. Sonatas written for this combination, with the harpsichord as an alternate for the continuo, were the equivalent in Corelli's day of the string quartet, and in fact evolved into the later form during the classical period. Corelli himself wrote a tremendous volume of them, some forty odd, of which two are to be played tonight. Three of Mozart's one-movement sonatas for the same combination of instruments will also be played, and they probably...
Heudi Ledbetter, ace negro blues singerr, known to many as "Leadbelly," the only twelve-string guitar player in America and one-time convict, stole the show when he sang last night at a benefit performance for Spanish relief in the Cantabrigia Club. A packed room clamoured incessantly for more of his husky voiced "hot ones...