Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lecture Hall meeting sponsored by the Faculty Defense group last night, common action toward a common goal was urged upon the nation by seven speakers. Occasional discordant notes crept into the program to mar the dominant theme of unity...
...succeeds only as a technical imitation. Compare another early Schubert symphony, the Fourth or "Tragic," with its eighteenth-century counterpart, the Mozart G-minor. At first glance the two are strikingly alike. Their plan of construction is almost identical. Both are based on a type of melancholy flowing theme. But if you listen very long to the Schubert Fourth, what seemed its real charm has mysteriously gone up in smoke, leaving only the ashes of a facile, perfunctory exercise in the mechanics of composing. But if you listen again to the Mozart G-minor, you continue, (at least...
Bach: Musical Offering (Yella Pessl, harpsichord, four strings, four wood winds; Victor: 10 sides). First recording, and a fine one, of the ingenious fugues, canons and sonata in which Bach tossed every which way a theme given him by King Frederick the Great (TIME...
...released from his contract with MCA. Right now the Count is on the road with Benny . . . Record of the week: Wings Over Manbattan by Charles Barnet (BLUEBIRD), and "atmosphere" tune on the line of Rhapsody in Blue. Very imaginative arranging of sophisticated melodic patterns built around the 32 bar theme. . . For a girl vocal trio that really swings (Andrews Sisters please note), listen to the Dandridge Sisters with Jinunie Lunceford on Red Wagon and You Ain't Nowhere (COLUMBIA). Trio and orchestra work together smoothly in two fine novelty tunes. . . Frog voiced, one-armed jive artist Wingy Mannone cuts...
...found an excellent subject for the inauguration of its new four-production-a-year program, which allows of a broader choice and increased opportunity to present works not seen on the conventional and commercialized stage. "The Family Reunion" is a resolution in modern form of the pagan, classical theme of the curse of the Eumenides through the Christian ideas of expiation and purgation. Harry, Lord Monchensey, is fated to bear the curse placed upon his family for the sins of his ancestors. His flight from the three Eumenides who represent the curse leads him at last to the family reunion...