Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This probably seems like a strange statement for Bach and Handel are almost in the old favors ite class. However, the popularity of Bach's keyboard music and Handel's Messiah has done as much to shut their other works off from the public as it has to make their names great. For example, of the Bach works which the Boston Symphony has done in the Friday and Saturday series them--two were arrangements of organ works and the other was the first performance in that series of the Sixth Brandcuburg Concerto...
...Christmas Concert. Except for the W. F. Bach concerto which is much too fussy for any but a first rate orchestra, there was very little of the struggling with notes which one might expect from a group made up of amateurs even to the conductors. The outstanding job was done by the Radcliffe Madrigal Group in the three carols for women's voices, but the execution of the whole program was on a surprisingly high level. The concert and others like it in the one of the most enjoyable types of undergraduate activity...
...plot for this drama might well have been concocted by Heinrich Himmler in one of his duller moments; the scenery could have been done by Painter Adolf Hitler suddenly turned Cubist; the dialogue could have been written by a slightly tipsy Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. All in all, the Russian act that led up to its invasion of Finland last week was a weird parody, rather than a Slavish plagiarism, of Nazi methods...
...society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery, $300; Brother Colin Montgomery, 28, $150; Alex Calvert, 21, $50). Smart Defense Attorney Aubrey G. Weaver spoke for the hunting set when he declaimed that the boys had done "what any red-blooded Virginian* would have done . . ." And that "these young men have rendered a public service to this community...
...part of the artist to bring these elements together by means of labored and intricate composition. We find no straining at the leash of any one part to break into prominence and destroy the equilibrium which exists. The Sargent paintings, on the other hand, although interesting and well done, prove only that Sargent knew how to handle a brush. His remarkable dexterity is admirably suited for his subject matter, which consists primarily of wooded scenes and luxuriant foliage, done in a swiftly executed, impressionistic manner. Sargent represented nature in a style that certainly indicates that he knew what...