Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weak. Mile. Crochet's reading, a compendium of elegant phrasing, effortless roulades, and delicious, unforced tone (for which the piano is probably due some credit) was the performance of a knowing, sensitive professional. But the Orchestra is only a good civic ensemble, and hazy string entrances or out-of-tune winds naturally suffer in the face of such suavity. Nevertheless, Mr. Manusevitch is a fine musician, and his accompaniment was tasteful, and appropriately reserved...
Five Finger Exercise (by Peter Shaffer) starts off with the look of one more mousy English country-house play, with the sound of one more reminiscent and easily resolvable tune. But it becomes increasingly cat-and-mousy, with a tune that introduces subtle dissonances, ominous themes, crashing chords. The Harrington family is slightly non-U and wholly nonunified. Father (Roland Culver) is a self-made furniture manufacturer, all the more defensively crass and philistine because of his contemptuously snobbish, culture-climbing wife (Jessica Tandy) and his contemptuous, muddled mamma's lap dog of a son (Brian Bedford...
...unifying the country-cause Communist hands to be raised in righteous protest against "violation of the Camp David spirit." Recently the Soviet press has been unexpectedly publishing the full text of speeches by Dean Acheson and Christian Herter. Finally it drew its conclusion: neither of these men is in tune with Camp David...
Sporting a 3-1 record the Yardlings, met Princeton but found out, to the tune of 20 to 12, that they were not the cream of the Ivy League. A victory over Yale would have soothed the Crimson's wounds, but the Yardlings' chronic troubles in the second half resulted in a disappointing finish to their season...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Schonberg, Variations for Orchestra; Rust, Viola sonata; Moussorgsky, Sorochintsy Fair; Gabrieli, Canzone; Potter, Variations on a popular tune; Mendelssohn, Piano trio...