Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since Arturo Toscanini took it abroad 25 years ago, the orchestra got the gladdest welcome and the biggest raves any orchestra has ever had at the Edinburgh Festival. The press was more pro than con. Sample pro: the Manchester Guardian's Neville Gardus noted that the scherzo of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 4 "received a performance which frankly left me ... speechless with wonder and admiration." Not so pro: John Warrack of the London Daily Telegraph found the same symphony played with "appalling force, shrieking with despair and spitting fury, unrelenting in its attack upon the nerves and battering...
Whatever Lola Wants (Sarah Vaughan; Mercury). Longtime top Bop Stylist Vaughan gone pop. The song, from Broadway's latest, Damn Yankees (see THEATER), is a fine, cynical tropical slink, and Sarah's husky tone suits it to the floor...
Princeton coach Dick Vaughan pulled the season's trickiest offensive play when he took out his goalie at the end of the second periods which 35 seconds to play. Cleary delighted the crowd by following with a shot the length of the rink, but it missed the cage by three feet...
...Victor released the second two LP volumes of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, played with unbeatable fire and insight by the late great Artur Schnabel. London completed its own releases of the same series by 70-year-old Wilhelm Backhaus, as well as all seven Symphonies by British Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Columbia packaged most of the Orchestral Music of Brahms (four records), lovingly played by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter, and all the Beethoven Cello Sonatas (three records), masterfully played by Pablo Casals and Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
Thurmond, as did most of the state's newspapers. The kiss of death for Brown came when Harry Vaughan told a Washington newspaperman that Harry Truman was for Brown because of Thurmond's 1948 disloyalty to the party (TIME, Nov. i). The vote: Thurmond 139,106, Brown 80,956. After the count, Senator-elect Thurmond renewed a promise: he will resign in 1956 to meet all comers in a proper primary...