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...performance of Schumann's Concerto in A Minor too cold and brittle for their taste. But most of them were sure of one thing: in the small field of women concert pianists, she was the brightest newcomer of the year. "Here," wrote the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, "is an artist one can enjoy with all the faculties-with the sentiments, with the mind, and with the musical...
...Palestrina to U.S. contemporary Composer Paul Creston, who has arranged works especially for them. Critics gave them good marks for diction, blending of voices and clarity of line, and for a welcome versatility of material which the Don Cossack choruses lack. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "[This choir] could, without half trying, raise the whole level of our current taste in semi-popular music. It is that good." Columbia Concerts, Inc., which thought so too, has signed the boys to a 140-concert tour of the U.S. and Canada...
...well-sung, dramatic (if occasionally overplayed) Don Giovanni in two acts. With a stylized set, which was made to do for both indoor & outdoor scenes, Halasz simplified Don Giovanni's nine cumbersome scenes without sacrificing any of the music. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Critic Virgil Thomson: "The most distinguished piece of work all through that our city troupe has yet produced...
...eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil, shepherds met in bucolic settings and conversed in polished verses. In Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a department store buyer; Emble, a good-looking young naval officer. It is All Souls' Night...
Completing the list of American educators are literary critic Alfred Kazin, New York Herald Tribune music critic Virgil Thomson '22, J. J. Sweeney, former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, and public opinion expert Lyman Bryson of Columbia University and the Columbia Broadcasting system...