Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot Chamber Players Friday night in the House Library presented an evening musicale that was surprisingly good. The room and the size of the performing group were ideal for the program consisting of Bach and Vivaldi. The only factor to mar the eighteenth century aspect was the number of people almost hanging from the book shelves listening...
...outstanding reasons for the concert's success were the fine tone and technical excellence, usually lacking in amateur performances. The Chamber Players sounded almost professional. The balance sounded a bit odd at times but this can easily be overlooked in view of the greater accomplishments...
...been squeezed out of the annual rite; some members' heads were nodding. Winston Churchill fidgeted fretfully, first slumping down in his seat, then drawing himself bolt upright to peer dully at the green carpet between his feet. When Cripps finished, there were only two cheerful men in the chamber-Cripps himself and Tory Chief Lord Woolton, who smiled down blandly from the gallery...
...Italy's Chamber of Deputies, politicians howled with anger at the U.S. "America now needs Tito more than De Gasperi," they shouted. "What is the value of the Atlantic pact?" The cause of their rage was U.S. unwillingness to give full support to Italian claims on the Free Territory of Trieste...
...with his freshness of dramatic invention, Menotti has been more successful at putting opera over in the U.S. than any other composer of his own generation. English Composer Benjamin Britten has had spectacular success in grand opera houses with his bigger and more traditional opera Peter Grimes, and his chamber operas Albert Herring and Let's Make an Opera are successful in Britain and Europe. His lone Broadway production, The Rape of Lucretia, was a flop...