Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though never really dramatic, The Family Reunion can become suddenly theatrical; its Chorus of Uncles and Aunts, although too selfconscious, can be amusing or striking; the atmosphere can quiver with menace; and the expertly managed verse is flexible as other things are rigid. Stuart Vaughan's sound staging and Norris Houghton's shapely set make for helpfully stylized effects, although a cast that includes Florence Reed, Lillian Gish and Fritz Weaver tends to act in varying styles. The cast, understandably, come off best where Eliot did-with the language...
...Biggs is ready to play," said an authoritative voice and everyone trooped to folding chairs facing the organ. The notes struck, proud and singing, from the compact, shiny instrument as Biggs played works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (appropriately enough), Franck, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Bach...
Married. Sarah Vaughan, 34, supple-voiced Negro jazz singer; and Clyde Brooks Atkins, 30, owner of a fleet of taxicabs on Chicago's South Side, onetime football fullback; she for the second time, he for the first; in a City Hall ceremony, in Chicago. Witness: Trumpeter John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie. The bride wore a white trapeze dress and green shoes. The witness wore a brown-and-white cord suit, pink shirt, red-and-black tie, and, on his head, a diamond-patterned, black-and-white tarboosh...
...time his stirring Symphony No. 6 had its premiere in 1948, when he was 76, musical history offered few parallels of such creative longevity. Yet Ralph Vaughan Williams went on to write three more symphonies. King George V gave him the Order of Merit in 1935, but he declined many other honors, knighthood included. He may not have attained the wide popularity of that musical Kipling, Sir Edward Elgar, but international professionals respected Vaughan Williams as the more important musician. And all England loved him as Sir Malcolm Sargent described him: "A darling fat man walking about clasping a bowler...
Died. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 85, British composer; in London (see Music...