Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical program which followed the talk, brought in the "sonorous image" theme, using instruments unfamiliar to the audience. They were a square, 150-year-old Mozart piano, and a Karpsichord...
Devoted to unfamiliar music of the late Eighteenth Century, the evening was chiefly of historical importance. One cannot help admiring Mozart and Haydn more than ever, after comparing them with their mediocre contemporaries represented on Monday's program...
When U.S. Dancer Ruth Page tried her lusty ballet Frankie and Johnny on the French last year, they gave her a bad time of it (TIME, May 22, 1950). The audience whistled in derision. Paris critics, unfamiliar with the story of Frankie and Johnny and completely out of step with Page's kidding treatment of it, scourged the ballet with such epithets as "catastrophe.'' "monstrous" and "unconsciously obscene." Last week Ruth Page was back with a new ballet. It was called Revanche (Revenge), and it was the hit of Paris...
...concert devoted entirely to the music of Bach can be either a very inspiring or a very tedious experience. Monday night's concert at Sanders Theatre came much closer to the former. The Cambridge Collegium Musicum opened its eighth season auspiciously with spirited, authentic renditions of four comparatively unfamiliar works...
...Difficult to Swallow." It would be a very hardened sinner who could read this love story without a pang of recognition, a momentary enlargement of the heart. But when, in the last 50 pages, the key changes from the familiar minor to an unfamiliar major-from the unmaking of a mistress to the making of a saint-even the warmest reader may feel his conviction cooling. For the machinery from which the rescuing God emerges is less the novelist's than the churchman...