Word: surginger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Love Music (All-American Youth Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Dr. Stokowski, a great one for tinkering, first fixed up these surging passages for Victor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra. With his youths (Class of 1940) he produces a satisfactory, briefer job.
But Columbia's Lions, winning two contests during the week, kept pace with the surging Indians. With only two defeats in the lost column, as compared with one for Dartmouth, Columbia still has a chance to cut down the Hanoverian lead. Cornell, still in the race mathematically but with three...
Tall, grey, bony Italo Montemezzi, 65-year-old Italian composer, is a one-good-opera man.* Montemezzi's opera, written in 1913, is L'Amore del Tre Re (The Love of Three Kings). It is a chronicle of ancient tabloid-headline love: a king's wife and...
(New York Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by John Barbirolli; Columbia: 10 sides; $5.50). The great Finn's most popular symphony, full of surging tunes and brassy patriotics, tooled energetically by the Philharmonic, but less polished than the older Boston Symphony recording (Victor).
Even hardheaded critics, who have long held that sculptural Virtuoso Milles sacrifices purity of line to superficial melodrama, had to admit that few living sculptors could match the sound & fury of his mystical, Norse fairyland in sculpture. Most impressive of the works displayed was his most recent: a surging, scowling...