Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remainder of the concert concerned itself with the orchestra's other goal of presenting unusual music. Under Malcolm Holmes' direction, the orchestra gave first-rate performances of two old and quite unfortunately neglected works: a Purcell suite from "The Virtuous Wife" and a Corelli Concerto Grosso in D. Later in the evening the group played the seldom-heard Vaughan Williams "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus'", a lovely piece for Harps and Strings which had Williams' customary lushness of orchestral sound. The only complaint to be registered about the evening in Sanders Theatre, as a matter of fact...
Written by Jacques Deval, "Tovaritch" tells the story of a Russian nobleman and his wife who are compelled to flee their country when the Communist revolution was successful...
...penniless, to write music. He just lolls around sniveling until his domineering sister (Ella Raines) and his adoring sweetheart (Phyllis Calvert) finagle money enough to send him to Paris. Later on, Chris shows his contempt for the financial side of his art; at a public concert which his socialite wife has promoted for him he digresses, in mid-concerto, into A Bicycle Built for Two. But at long last he climbs off his bicycle, finds himself, his genius, his proper mate (Miss Calvert) and, thanks to her promotional talents, plays a triumphant return concert...
Grand Slam. In London, William Deven slammed his wife's bedroom door with such vigor that the three-story facade of the house fell off, crashed to the ground...
First on the evening's program comes Corelli's 'Concerto Grosso in D," followed by Beethoven's "First Piano Concerto in C Major." Then the orchestra will turn to opera to present a suite from Purcell's "The Virtuous Wife...