Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprawling Casa del Pueblo, Apra headquarters in Lima, baggy, beaming Apra Chief Victor Raul Haya de la Torre faced his weekly "leaders' class." This time the men on the hard benches in the whitewashed, barnlike hall got no lesson on public speaking or Peruvian finance...
...Victor J. Critchlow, Portland, Ore., Treasurer '47 Red Book, Jubilee Committee, Temporary Class Committee (treasurer), Dunster House Committee (treasurer), Student Council, House football, Glee Club, Orchestra, Choir...
Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor (Artur Rubinstein, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting; Victor, 7 sides). Chopin, never at his ease in large, rigid forms, played superbly by Rubinstein, always at his best in Chopin. Performance: excellent...
Falla: El Amor Brujo (the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano; Victor, 6 sides; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Carol Brice, contralto; Columbia, 6 sides). Reiner's version of this Debussy-scented Andalusian suite, which includes the popular Fire Dance, is less vivid than Stokowski...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Stravinsky's disjointed, noisy ballet music played with assurance, brilliance, clarity and precision by the tubby little maestro who first shocked a Paris audience with it 34 years...