Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Violinist Max Polikoff, who felt that the public was starved for new music and that contemporary composers deserved a wider hearing ("Death doesn't enhance them, only possibly their music"). With the aid of Manhattan Y.M.H.A. Education Director William Kolodney, Polikoff set up an eight-concert Sunday-afternoon series on modern music with a minimal $5 subscription fee, attracted enthusiastic audiences to the Y.M.H.A.'s Kaufmann Auditorium. This season the series has expanded to ten concerts, all of them performed by first-rate players. Although Polikoff has scheduled more American than foreign works, this week...
...YORK FLUTE CLUB was founded in 1920 by the late great Flutist Georges Barrere, regularly attracts some 150 loyal flute lovers to its Sunday afternoon concerts at Carl Fischer Hall. At each concert a different well-known flutist is invited to perform, either solo or in chamber-music ensembles, e.g., last week Claude Monteux, son of the conductor, accompanied by Composer Henry Brant at the piano, in a program of new and traditional works, including Milhaud's Sonatine, a Haydn Sonata in G and Brant's own Partita in C. Why there should be such a persistent demand...
...First there were the years of carrying handkerchief-twisted pennies to Sunday school 'for the missionaries.' Then there were the years in young people's groups and in the congregation listening to furloughed missionaries tell their long stories...
...cannot often apply the term succes fou to the performance of an amatuer student orchestra; but that is precisely what the Bach Society enjoyed on Sunday, and deservedly so. It was an evening of memorable music-making, thanks to conductor Michael Senturia and his fine instrumentalists...
Scottish clergymen saw the hand of God in the collapse of the bridge-because the train had traveled on a Sunday. But most people simply blamed the designer, Sir Thomas Bouch (already knighted for his achievement), who in his plans had made no allowance for the wind. Bouch, with his schoolboy mathematics, cut a grim and pitiable figure at the inevitable court of inquiry. His design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found...