Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bartók's own favorites was his early (1907) Portrait No. 1 in D, in which a tender strain of violin melody was originally played by the concertmaster from his seat in the orchestra. Bartók once begged Szigeti: "You must rescue it, take it out of the orchestra." Last week Szigeti played it as a violin concerto, with Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony, in its first Manhattan performance. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "How music of such extraordinary value can have escaped [our] attention . . . for four decades is difficult to understand...
...time Author Flynn has plowed his foamy way to p. 308, Captain Shamus-and life itself-have humbled Cleo into the tender little woman she had secretly longed to be, and put the whole party through spine-tingling experiences with hurricanes, sharks, pygmies, headhunters and counterespionage for the U.S. Navy...
Despite some indignation over this devotion to Composer Giacomo Puccini's realism of plot and tender score, the first performance of La Bohème was a success. The critics aloofly condemned Puccini for writing down to the mob. But there were 15 curtain calls. The great Giuseppe Verdi was notably absent, but Pietro (Cavalleria Rusticana) Mascagni and Ruggiero (Pagliacci) Leoncavallo, sitting in boxes, led the cheering. Tall, droop-mustached Giacomo Puccini, 37, tearfully embraced Toscanini. La Bohème, a work with a realistic human story,* has been one of the most popular operas ever since...
...Crimson stickwielders will be reinforced tonight by the addition of one or two veterans of the 1942 Jayvee or Freshman teams, just returned from the wars. Coach Chase mentioned as his tentative starting lineup Johnny Knowles as goal-tender, Bob Cowen (who will leave the NROTC unit with his commission February 9) and Dick Greeley at the defense positions, Peter Eaton at left wing, Bob Feloney at center, and Bill Ayres, the team's captain at right wing...
...mane in the frost, the glint of armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...