Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Victor Suckle...
...William Victor Suckle...
...winner at El Alamein would be, in all probability, the victor of North Africa, for victory could be won only with the destruction of the loser's main forces. Rather than lose his hope of destroying the Axis forces, Montgomery was undoubtedly prepared to draw back if the Rommel line was too strong. In that event there would be no victor; there would be another stalemate. On the third day of assault the British had neither drawn back nor advanced very far. Nor had General Montgomery seen fit to amend his order of the first day: "Destroy Rommel...
...William Victor Suckle...
Quartet recording in past years has often been a slip-shod business. Victor especially seems contented just to get the sound down on wax and let it go at that. Not so, however, with Columbia's Budapest Quartet series. Here are four players, each a first rate soloist in his own right, welded together into the kind of unit you find in a good crew or ball team. Other quartets have the same precision, and occasionally the same warmth of tone, but the Budapest people have that extra something that brings the music to life and gives it symphonic dimensions...