Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Koussevitzky strives for a cumulative emotional effect through the music and ignores the niceties of the traditional Classic approach. Although liberties are taken with tempi and choir prominence, Koussevitzky's Brahms is a good answer to those who insist that the German master is academic and intellectual. Brahms was warm-blooded and extrovert Sunday afternoon...
...Lunch. Hinky Dink and his lifelong partner, Bathhouse John Coughlin, had set out to rule these rich and raffish stews of the new metropolis. Bathhouse John, once a rubber in a Turkish oath, was the front man. He was a huge, bumbiing. handsome ruffian, full of pomp, speech and warm red blood. Tight-lipped Hinky Dink was the boss. They were elected aldermen; together they controlled the vote, became loved, feared, respected...
...like an April day, first warm, then cool...
Wallace will bring to Michael Straight's magazine the years of experience which he had as editor of the farm journal which he in turn had inherited from his father. His long experience in government, his warm concern for the welfare of the peoples of the world, and his ability to dramatize complex social situations with such slogans as "60,000,000 jobs" should enable the magazine to broaden its scope beyond its present circulation of 50,000 readers, almost all of whom live on the East Coast. By becoming more of a national magazine, the New Republic...
...quadruplets. Last week in Berkeley, Calif, a new one took the air. The Paganini Quartet (so named because their cello, viola, and two violins are Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...