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More often the Voice really manages to convey the breadth and the vigor of the American land. A recent instance was the dramatized history of the Missouri Valley, including the Astor Fur Co. and Custer's Last Stand. The piece ended in this trite but nevertheless moving passage: "The great buffalo herds of yesterday live only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank...
...resent your slur on the shipbuilders of New England: the presidential yacht Williamsburg "rolled and pitched and yawed with sickening vigor . . ." [TIME, March...
...before he finished this last testament, and before he had noted down just what instrument or instruments should play it. Hence it is variously performed on the organ, by string quartet, and, as here, by a small orchestra. This performance is clear and calm, but short of vitality and vigor. Recording: excellent...
...through with Symphony No. 5. In Dallas' last concert of the season, No. 5 shared the program with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3. Mennin's short three-movement work did not have the "Eroica's" earth-shaking vitality, but it did have plenty of vim & vigor...
There is still great moral strength in the French people. Observers who know present-day French youth are favorably impressed by its vigor. There is great patriotism, even among the French workers who call themselves Communists. Most of them are Communists for revenue only: they strike for wages, but they will not strike for Communist political objectives. Although the French dockworkers' union is supposed to be 100% Communist-dominated, the Reds are failing in their present all-out drive to have the dockers refuse to unload ships with U.S.military...