Word: tod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Hawks' resurgence lies with three veteran forwards known to all Chicago as the Pappy Line: Left Wing Ted Lindsay, 33, Center Tod Sloan, 31, and Right Wing Eddie Litzenberger, 26. With a total of 69 goals, 94 assists, the Pappy Line is far and away the highest-scoring line in the league...
...Mary Todhunter Clark (sniffed a Main Line matron: "A young New York man is marrying into the Clark family"). Wedding present from the groom's parents: a year's trip around the world. Armed with letters of introduction to government officials and Standard Oil executives, Nelson and "Tod" Rockefeller journeyed from Europe to India to the Far East, spent most of their honeymoon discussing world problems with Prime Ministers and potentates...
Following the intermission came the most moving piece of the evening--Des Todes Tod, Opus 23a--in what was one of its first American performances. The piece is based on three poems by Eduard Reinacher and is scored for woman's voice, two violas and two 'celli. The soprano was Jean Lunn, who also organized the whole program. Her performance was outstanding, her interpretation dramatic, and her voice very clear. She was well supported by Miss Johnson and Judith Davidoff, 'cellists, and Mr. Eleftherakis and Joseph Pietropaolo, violists...
Both Des Todes Tod and its successor on the program, Die Serenaden--a little cantata on Romantic texts for soprano, oboe, viola and violoncello--approached Hindemith's orchestral ideal of thick texture, rich tone and extensive contrapuntal treatment, with each instrument going its separate way. In "Der Wurm am Meer" in the second group of pieces in Die Serenaden, all four elements had different melodies that combined to form a coherent and colorful whole. Such terms might be used to describe the whole program...
Works to be performed are the Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Sonata for Viola Solo, Opus 25, No. 1, Sonata Violincello Solo, Op. 25, No. 3, Des Todes Tod, Op. 23a, and Die Serenaden...