Word: thor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early this month the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Conductor Thor Johnson played De Gastyne's third symphony. Critics found it to be a highly promising work, but with far too many ideas-a potpourri of styles recalling Stravinsky, Ravel, Gershwin. Best feature: confident orchestration that sounds as if Composer de Gastyne enjoyed playing around with masses of pleasant sounds...
Five seniors, all members of last year's third place team, are expected to serve as the nucleus of this fall's soccer squad. Included in this group are Thor Thor, Will Lorry, Pete McKinney, Bob Fish and Bob Macy. The touch football six is expected to improve on its 1954 2-5 record, while the cross country team is led by Norm Hartness, who finished sixth in last year's race...
...Fish Creek, Wis. is the home of the three-year-old Peninsula Festival, buried among the lakeside evergreens in Door County, 65 miles northeast of Green Bay. Conductor Thor Johnson (of the Cincinnati Symphony) gathers an orchestra of 40 standout musicians for two weeks (beginning Aug. 6). All nine concerts include unfamiliar or contemporary works, and usually play to full houses...
Dunster: Joseph D. French, James G. Hatcher, Jr., David H. Knutson, Daniel A. Rezneck, Sirgay Sanger, Hugh A. Sargent, Bradley W. Stark, Thor H. Thors...
...hand, an eye, a fish, a serpent . . . while, strangely enough, the last of all in the Hebrew is Taw, a 'mark,' a 'sacred symbol,' the Aramaic Tor, 'oryx' or 'ox,' the Arabic Thaw, the Greek Tauros, the Latin Taurus, the Germanic Thor, 'the Thunderer.' Two bulls? The first and last letter of the alphabet a bull? One is reminded of Alam and Alad, the two bulls of the Sumerians, one on the right hand- and the other on the left of the gate of the temple, of Alpha and Omega...