Word: waltzers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mikoyan of 1957 can still turn on joviality like tap water, laugh off Khrushchev's blunted barbs, and knock back bottoms-up toasts in the Armenian cognac he calls "best on earth." He remains the Kremlin's jauntiest dresser and spriest waltzer. His wife Anush (whom he found in Rostov's Armenian colony just after the revolution) calls him babnik, which means flatterer. She once declared that he was one of only two hand-kissing, courtly gentlemen in Moscow (the other: Lavrenty Beria). They have four sons (another was killed in World...
Bruckner represents Vienna to the longhair almost as fully as Johann Strauss does to the waltzer. An organist-teacher who knew and idolized Richard Wagner,* Bruckner was remarkably prolific (eleven symphonies) but never won wide popularity, has only a handful of dedicated champions in the U.S. His critics feel that his music is long-winded, full of thunderous ups and downs but no real climaxes. His Seventh Symphony refloats Wagner's old ecstasies on a luminous sea. Tunes follow one another like long ground swells; the hues and moods change gradually and at length. When it is all over...
...Harvard Freshmen exhibited a well-blended tone, from pianissimo to forte, in three of Brahma' Liebeslieder Waltzer. At fortissimo, however, the tone sometimes became a little heavy and unmusical, as in Godiam la Pace from Mozart's Idomenco. Conductor Allan D. Miller trained his singers beautifully for Byrd's three-voice canon Non Nobis Domine; the performance was clear-cut and well balanced...