Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peru's multi-octaved Yma Sumac, whose extraordinary voice ranges easily from a mockingbird soprano to a deep, womanly baritone, gave a concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, so impressed the Herald Tribune's Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson that he wrote: "She belongs in the great houses of opera." Said Yma, who claims to be 24: "It's too late for me to do it . . . [Besides,] I make very much more money than if I sang in two cr three operas a year for the Metropolitan...
Adaptor Valency's English version is excellent prose. But dramatically, Ondine suffers from too much prose-or at any rate, too little poetry. Virgil Thomson's evocative incidental music suggests a tale better adapted to opera or ballet. For, however ironic and sophisticated, Giraudoux has not brought a new dimension, or even any very striking overtones, to an old story. What the tale gains in philosophical embroideries it more than loses in fairy-tale magic and lyrical feeling. It seems neither simple nor complex enough; in a certain prettiness and lifelessness, it suggests not the court magician...
...vice-presidency was finally won, 36 to 28, by John C. Eldridge '55 of Lowell House and Silver Springs, Md. John R. Thomson '57 of Weld Hall and Scarsdale, N.Y. was chosen operations director. He is currently secretary of the club and its only freshman officer...
Strategy for Yale works this way. Apeman Stu Thomson and his teammate Tom Henderson are being counted on to score heavily in the shot and weight threw; Bill Donegan and Harry Work, in the pole vault; Mike Stanley and Jack Meader in the 1,000 yard run; Joe Albanese and Ross Price, in the 600 yard run; and whomever Gigengack picks in the two-mile relay...
...York Giants traded the man who won them a pennant in 1951. Outfielder Bobby Thomson, 30, whose ninth-inning play-off homer beat Brooklyn, went to the Milwaukee Braves for Pitcher Johnny Antonelli in a six-player deal...