Word: trios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: "Archduke" Trio, Op. 97, No. 7 (Artur Rubinstein, pianist, Jascha Heifetz, violinist, Emanuel Feuermann, cellist; Victor; 10 sides). There is no doubt at all about this masterpiece's authorship. This great trio's performance of it was magnificently recorded before Cellist Feuermann's death a year...
...State Department, the British Foreign Office, the Vatican Secretariat of State, whom Professor Salvemini regards as a trio of Borgias engaged in a dark plot to strangle Italian democracy in its bassinet...
...Forces Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) crashes over Germany until he arrives safely back in Eng land, the plot never stops boiling. When the captain escapes from the prison camp, with an alleged Czech prisoner (Kent Taylor) and a most unlikely-looking Russian Army doctor (Annabella), the trio hitch hike to Frankfort in no less an oddity than a truck full of coffins. When the Czech turns out to be a German spy, Doctor Annabella quite naturally snoots...
...perfection. Georges Laurent demonstrated his marvelous precision and control of the flute by playing three difficult virtuoso numbers in succession. The Mozart quartet, K. 285 and the Roussel Serenade, Op 30 were played in combination with a small string ensemble; the Three Pieces by Walter Piston was a woodwind trio,--flute, clarinet, and bassoon. This composition, one of Piston's earliest, has a humorous grotesqueness and vitality apparently much appreciated by the Cambridge audience, for it received more applause than any other on the program, Dr. Piston rising twice to acknowledge...
Allen had a divisional staff to his liking. Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt Jr. was his second in command. Third of a convivial and efficient trio was Colonel Henry B. Cheadle, commander of the famed 16th Infantry Regiment, now a brigadier general and assistant commander of another division. His personal aide was Major Kenneth Downs, a former newsman whom Allen met and adopted at a party shortly before the division sailed for Britain...