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...will." In rehearsal, single measures in Ives's symphonic suite Three Places in New England had to be hashed over as many as ten times. One section has a trumpet blaring the melody of The British Grenadiers in march tempo, while the strings saw away on a waltz. Groaned Assistant Conductor Richard Burgin: "I give the time, but the musicians are not supposed to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Double Indemnity | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...stood in their defensive positions. With tactics like that, DePaul out-slowed the Aggies, 32-31. The defeat only convinced the Aggies that slow basketball is winning basketball. Last week the Aggies sludged past Tulsa (42-27), and gave arch-rival Oklahoma U. a lesson (45-30) in the waltz. It was victory No. 17 against two defeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Old-Fashioned Way | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...such scenes and thoughts had no great place in life. The years before World War I seem to Sacheverell Sitwell to have been such a period-children playing at the seashore, a "goat-carriage" drawn up beside the bandstand, waking in the morning with the music of a new waltz ringing in one's ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prose for Convalescents | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Family Album," the remaining play, is a sentimental period piece. Its mood is bittersweet, and Coward has written one of his best bittersweet songs for it--a waltz entitled "Hearts and Flowers." And if it is not so neat as the opener, it is also nowhere nearly so superficial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

Frederik of Norway made a fullblown, official state visit to Stockholm, thus giving royalty a fine excuse to dress to the teeth. One result: a news picture of Sweden's Gustaf and Denmark's Queen Ingrid which almost played its own champagne waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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