Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel Night at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in the third week of the Middle Eastern crisis. Three thousand people, predominantly American Jews, had paid for their admission in advance to the tune of $475,000 worth of Israeli bonds to hear Baritone Robert Merrill, Concert Pianist Eugene List, Singer-Pianist Hazel Scott and Cantor David Kusevitsky. Israel Night, its sponsor, the New York Metropolitan Council of B'nai Brith, had announced, was part of a six-week bond-selling drive, which will be climaxed on Dec. 6 by the Sixth Annual Hanukkah Festival in Madison Square Garden...
...Viennese were led by Germany's thoroughly craftsmanlike Carl Schuricht, who during the orchestra's current U.S. tour (31 concerts) will alernate with Belguim's Andre Cluytens. Schuricht, a kinetic 76, conducted with broad, firm gestures that belied his frail appearance, seemed to be perfectly in tune with the Viennese. The audience was plainly delighted from the moment the orchestra's famed string section started to play-or rather, to sing. In Mozart's short Symphony No. 23, written when he was 17, the orchestra brought out a remarkable feeling of adolescent sentimentality-the oboe...
...religious movie epic-along with the "religiose" pop tune and the Biblical bestseller-is more than ever a part of the U.S. scene. Clergymen have mixed feelings about it. Some see it as a heartening sign of a religious revival, believe that movies can make the stories and sometimes even the spirit of the Bible come alive for otherwise indifferent millions. Other churchmen are appalled to find Scripture reduced to sex and circuses, to see spiritual messages clothed in the well-publicized flesh of Hollywood stars, regard the whole trend as part of a vulgarization of religion. This week...
...selfish and irresponsible-an absolute mockery of the industry's obligation to serve the public interest." Where were the Big Three chains on this historic occasion? Displaying Veteran Cashier Bert Parks and his moneybags, putting Wyatt Earp through his heroic paces and inviting the nation to Name That Tune. (Only one TV station in the U.S. carried the U.N.-Manhattan's local WPIX...
...lifelessness of the performances was particularly noticeable during the slow movement of Boccherini's 3rd Symphony. Faster movements, such as the final section of Tschaikowsky's 4th Symphony, generally fared better. Here, even though some of the performers were out of tune and others came in at the wrong instant, most of the faults were lost in the onward rush of sound, allegro con fuoco, and the resulting music was not at all unsatisfactory...