Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of grueling practice and argument, working ten hours a day. No outside musicians were allowed to eavesdrop. Said Rubinstein: "That was the kitchen work, and you don't cook in public." In July, Piatigorsky went to the coast for a second session. Then in Chicago, they took two sessions to test Ravinia's temperamental microphones. Said Pianist Rubinstein: "With this mike, I play what is fortissimo and drown Jascha. But what should I do? Play mouse? I go crazy if I hold back and go nibble-nibble; fortissimo is not like a mouse...
...with Darius Milhaud's new, dryly dissonant Quartet No. 14. That over, the Budapest retired, and the Paganini played Milhaud's more melodic Quartet No. 15. Then, while chamber-music lovers waited uneasily, the Budapest returned, sat down alongside the Paganini, and the eight players played the two quartets simultaneously. The result: critics found it a superb feat of musicianship, but most listeners looked as if they were hearing an important speech in a foreign language...
...like very much little antiques and I thought I shall use it ... I found there were eight staves on the paper. I thought it is not my plan to write an octet. I had thought to write quartets. And then I thought why should I not write two quartets in that little book and make an octet out of them...
...Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia) among other things, had three operas and a score of other works to go. Last week, Serge Koussevitzky gave his Berkshire Music Center fans a chance to catch two Britten premi...
This week the animated dredge is digging harder than at any time since 1927, when soundtracks shattered the silent movies and Hollywood had to line up a whole new team of movie stars overnight. Every day the maw takes a bite or two of common clay, lugs it off to Hollywood's casting mills. There it is sifted for the sapphires that men sometimes find in common clay...