Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of The Musical Offering, however, is still the essentially lyrical Trio Sonata. The Art of the Fugue confronts the listener with a from whose essence cannot be analyzed in terms of melody or of harmony. Ernest Levy, in his recent lectures at M.I.T., suggested that the fugue might best be apprehended spatially, with time, as an aesthetic factor, removed. This approach, peculiar to the fugue, stands in contrast with that type of appreciation whereby the listener views a piece as a drama in whose development he may participate...
Three members of the starting lineup, which played approximately half the scrimmage, were tied for scoring honors with ten points each. The trio, Captain Roger Hulger and sophomores Ike Canty and Bob Dolven, were also tied with eight points apiece at the end of 40 minutes. The other starters were seniors Dick Manning and Rollin Perry...
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Maria Reining, Sena Jurinac, Hilde Gueden, Ludwig Weber; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kleiber; London; 4 LPs). Strauss's most melodious score, in a stunning performance. It is dominated by the three brilliant sopranos, whose closing trio is the most affecting part of the opera, but the whole cast is in top form...
...forces in moviedom. The triumvirate's closely linked fortunes (they even pooled their incomes, drawing what they needed from a common fund) were partially severed in 1952 when 20th Century-Fox and the Skouras theater empire were divorced in a federal antitrust action. The promotional genius of the trio and for several years the nation's top-salaried executive (more than $800,000 a year before taxes), Charlie Skouras threw himself into public works with the same furious energy he lavished on his theaters, contributed to everything from Greek war relief to the Boy Scouts, almost single-handedly...
Then the entertainment began, swinging from rowdy boogies to fervent waltzes, all in praise of the Lord. First was the Gospel Melody Quartet, then the Harmoneers, featuring Tenor Happy Edwards in eye-rolling low comedy, the LeFevre Trio (Eva Mae and Urias LeFevre plus Little Troy Lumpkin) in an almost solemn harmonization of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions. After that came M. C. Fowler's own group, the white-suited Oak Ridge Quartet, then the Blackwood Brothers, who brought down the house with Have You Talked to the Man Upstairs?, and Atlanta...