Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark-haired, homely Leslie Cheek, who putters around in a paint-spattered sweat shirt thinking up ways to startle Baltimoreans into appreciating art. Last week more than 1,000 expectant people crowded the museum to see Director Cheek's latest show. They were not disappointed. While a small string orchestra played Viennese waltzes and items from Gilbert & Sullivan, visitors gaped at 1) photographs and movies illustrating the history and technique of sculpture, 2) plaster casts and bronzes under blue and green spotlights, 3) in a basement auditorium, as a sideshow (35?), a bevy of vacant-eyed, open-mouthed ballet...
Third and fourth team positions are almost interchangeable, but here is the way they lined up yesterday. Charley Royer and Don McSweeney were third string forwards, Larry Hall was the center, and Bill Jackson and Jack Clarke were the guards. On the fourth it was Jim Jenkins and Howie Ezell at forward, Pete Macgowan at center, and A1 Reade and Ray Holtan in the back court. Red Scully and Buzz Downer were not scrimmaging yesterday but be long on the list...
...Stradivarius String Quartet, which is again making Harvard its headquarters this year, has been touring House Common-rooms for several weeks with its performances of chamber-music. Tuesday night at Leverett House it played a program very likely to be repeated at the Fogg Wednesday evening, which included an early Beethoven quartet, a Schumann quartet, and a quartet by the contemporary talent Martinu. This followed out their usual policy of playing at each concert one classical, one romantic, and one modern quartet. The players made sure to place their modern offering in the middle: doubtless they were afraid of shocking...
...single terse remark: "Clover--but not true." This one phrase well strikes the effect of the Martinu quartet. It was dazzlingly clever. As far as I could see, it capitalized on every music sure-fire ever invented: catchy, inclusive rhythms, abrupt changes in tempo, wild polytonality, a string technique which graded off from whole pages of unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times to a Brahmsian luxuriance at others; to boot, reams of discordant counterpoint and impressively dull masses of sound. The quartet was musical sleight-of-hand personified, and it oozed cleverness. But it didn't ring true...
...Hurok has another ballet to his string. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, directed by swart, 44-year-old Leonide Massine, onetime maitre de ballet for Colonel de Basil, had opened in Manhattan, had now begun a 22-week tour of the U. S. The Massine ballet lacked pretty young stars and its ensemble would not make the Rockettes jealous, but it had two of the world's best ballerinas: dark, svelte British Alicia Markova, who excels in classic ballets like Giselle and Swan Lake, and dark, vivacious Alexandra Danilova, who was in the old Diaghilev company, Danilova -once...