Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end exiled factions of both right and left were still trooping back from abroad. The staff of urbane, British-mannered tin baron Carlos Victor Aramayo came up from Argentina. Jose Antonio Arze, head of the strong P.I.R. (Leftist Revolutionary Party) arrived from Santiago. Somewhere between their two groups, Bolivians might find representative government. Promised the Junta: "We will call elections and then turn over our power to a government chosen by the people...
...writings of Thomas Jefferson, set to music by Composer Randall Thompson, are sung by the Harvard Glee Club accompanied by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (The Testament of Freedom; Victor, 6 sides). Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait (Columbia, 4 sides) is narrated by Negro Baritone Kenneth Spencer to a derivative score played by the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York. In both these cases the words are wasted on pretentious, slight music...
Then there is Broadway Actor Ralph Bellamy soberly reading Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (Victor, 4 sides), and Orson Welles smacking and grumbling solemn words from Pericles to Lincoln (No Man Is an Island; Decca, 10 sides). Less noisy: A Walk in the Sun (Disc, 6 sides), a chronicle ballad of the famed Texas 36th Division, sung by Composer Earl Robinson. Strictly for their fans is the patter of Jimmy Durante (Decca, 8 sides) and Bob Hope (Capitol, 8 sides...
...pianist, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, Alfred Wallenstein conducting; Decca, 10 sides). The concerto which is rapidly replacing Tchaikovsky's as the most heard and most abused, played by President Truman's favorite pianist (TIME, April 22). The late composer's own recording for Victor (1929) remains the definitive one. Performance: good...
...Naughty Marietta" (Mon. 10 p.m., CBJ5). The Screen Guild players condense Victor Herbert's operetta into half an hour, starring Allan Jones and Irene Manning...