Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courageous challenge, moved up almost neck & neck with the smooth-moving Harvard boat. But the spurt was not good enough. The crimson crew, with its short leg & arm stroke taught them by Washington-trained Tom Bolles, made its first spurt of the day, darted over the finish line-victor by a little over a length...
SIBELIUS: SYMPHONY No. 4, IN A MINOR: LEMMINKAÏNEN ZIEHT HEIMWARTS; INCIDENTAL MUSIC TO THE TEMPEST (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Volume 5 of the six-year-old Sibelius Society's definitive edition. The smoldering, cataclysmic Fourth Symphony is generally regarded as Sibelius' masterpiece, and Beecham's Londoners play it with devotion. Gaunt and enigmatic to those not familiar with Sibelius, it improves wonderfully with repeated hearings. The items that follow are lesser, lighter, more ingratiating. Neither is available as a separate recording...
PROKOFIEFF: CONCERTO No. 2 IN G MINOR (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Jascha Heifetz; Victor: 6 sides). Composer Prokofieff's expedition into the "deeper realms of music" (TIME, April 4) has turned up one of the finest contemporary concertos. Brilliantly performed...
SCHUMANN : CONCERTO IN D MINOR FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting, with Yehudi Menuhin; Victor: 7 sides). The famed "lost" Schumann concerto confirms impressions of its U. S. premiere (TIME, Dec. 5). Its awkwardness causes even able Violinist Menuhin to wrestle...
PAGANINI-KREISLER: CONCERTO No. 1 IN D MAJOR FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA-FIRST MOVEMENT (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Fritz Kreisler; Victor: 4 sides). Performing his own version of the Paganini movement, which he premiered in Chicago two seasons ago, 63-year-old Kreisler proves himself still the world's most ingratiating fiddler...