Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true story of Duran is remarkable -but nothing like McCarthy's version. Duran was a Spanish composer of music who fought in the Spanish Republican Army, rising to command of a corps. As the Spanish Loyalists split into Communist and anti-Communist factions, Duran, never a Red, was definitely and clearly antiCommunist. When defeat came, he was smuggled out of Spain on a British warship. He married an American, became a citizen in four months more than the time required by law, worked for the U.S. Government in Cuba during World War II, tracking down Axis and Communist agents...
...Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens' masterly version of Dreiser's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TiME, Sept...
Conductor Mitropoulos, who once studied composition with Busoni and as a result took up conducting, staged his concert version of the satire more for barks than bites-in fact, it fell just short of slapstick. He arranged his orchestra on two sides of the stage, so that his singers had all the freedom of movement they could...
...grand design of The Interpreter's Bible is more impressive than any statistics. Each page is divided horizontally into three parts. At the top, in parallel columns, run two translations of the Bible's text-the 17th Century King James version and the Revised Standard version. Below the text is a band of exegesis. Writes Dr. Buttrick of this part of the work...
Those who heard last season's opening concert will remember the orchestra's electrifying performance of the Shostakovich masterpiece, and the recently-released recording belongs in every library of modern music. The only notceable difference between this and the standard Shostakovich version lies in the string playing, which is a bit shaky (especially in the first movement...