Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, exclaimed the usually businesslike Associated Press, as its clacking teletype machines began to carry the news around the world, "the fairy-tale drama of Britain's exciting weekend closed...
Great Scenes from Great Plays (Fri. 8 p.m., Mutual). A Tale of Two Cities, with Brian Aherne...
Cruel Dissonants. First the audience was jolted upright by an ugly, brutal blast of brass. Under it, whispers stirred in the orchestra, disjointed motifs fluttered from strings to woodwinds, like secret, anxious conversations. The survivor began his tale, in the tense half-spoken, half-sung style called Sprechstimme. The harmonies grew more cruelly dissonant. The chorus swelled to one terrible crescendo. Then, in less than ten minutes from the first blast, it was all over. While his audience was still thinking it over, Conductor Kurt Frederick played it through again, to give it another chance. This time, the audience seemed...
...Ironic Tale. Juan Suarez de Valero has three sons, one a great bishop, one a great soldier, and the third a baker. The concern of the churchman, his fear that his vanity is being appealed to, the confidence of the soldier, and his subsequent humiliation, the embarrassment of the baker at his unexpected prominence, and the emotion of the town at the thought of a genuine miracle occurring in its midst, are artfully handled. Once the miracle has happened, Maugham's imagination appears to have failed him; false notes become a little too frequent, and the introduction...
...entirely capable of taking over the Orchestra in Dr. Koussevitzky's absence. Mr. Burgin showed excellent taste in choosing a program: the concert opened with Brahms' often-played Third Symphony, continued with the never-played Adagio from Bruckner's String Quintet, and finished with a suite from "The Fairy Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Rimsky-Korsakov...