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...smother sour notes for him. Playing without written arrangements, bending the melody around on his own, then blending in with the others when the clarinet or trombone soars off on the lead, Louis has wrung raves even from longer-haired critics. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson once said that Louis' style of improvisation made him "a master of musical art comparable only to the great castrati of the 18th Century...
...Jokanaan (John the Baptist), had the starkness of a primitive carving as he hurled his curses on Salome. When the curtain was down, instead of morosely reaching for their coats, the audience stood up and applauded in a 15-minute ovation. Said the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson next morning: "One of the great musico-dramatic performances of our century...
Harvard: Cook, g; Bliss, ld; Donelan, rd; Timpson, c; Koch, lw; Nichols, rw. Andover Academy: Broduer, g; Bates, ld; Rider, rd; Brennan, c; Osgood, lw; Thomson...
Goals: First period Timpson, 0:45. Second period: Osgood, 0:50; Koch (Timpson), 1:29; Harris (Hatch, Snelling) 10:20. Third period, Timpson (Koch), 1:59; Thomson (Brennan), 4:40; Nicholas (Koch), 8:35; Hatch (Snelling...
...plenty of words-a male & female chorus moralized throughout-but it had too little to say and too little action. The rape scene got listeners on seat edge, but the other scenes slowed down to the speed of a grade-school tableau. Even the Herald Tribune's Thomson was disappointed: "There isn't enough music to hold the ear." Wrote his opposite number, Drama Critic Howard Barnes: "Music without a play...