Word: dvorak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aircraft rolled drunkenly from side to side, off-duty United Captain Dennis Fitch rushed to the cockpit to help Haynes and First Officer William Records, getting down on his knees to gingerly manipulate the throttles. Second Officer Dudley Dvorak walked to the back of the plane, trying to assess the damage. Haynes told controllers he could only make wide turns to the right and was worried about whether he could reach the airport. Alerted to the emergency, the tower at Sioux City informed local police and rescue units to prepare for either a crash landing on the runway...
...Philharmonia--Dvorak, Webern, Brahms--Jordan Hall...
...ANTONIN DVORAK: AMERICAN SUITE, SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Virgin Classics). Libor Pesek conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in exuberant renditions of these powerful works, whose brooding, Slavic soul belies their New World theme...
...ANTONIN DVORAK: AMERICAN SUITE, SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Virgin Classics). Libor Pesek conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in exuberant renditions of these powerful works, whose brooding Slavic soul belies their New World theme...
...supposes that the millennium has arrived and that mainstream audiences will happily sit still for an evening of contemporary music. But new music is not the only road to innovative programming. There are scores of neglected works by masters great and small that deserve dusting off. Instead of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, for example, why not the equally seductive but infrequently heard tone poem, The Wood Dove? Instead of Beethoven's pawky Second Piano Concerto or the overplayed Violin Concerto of Mendelssohn, why not Rimsky-Korsakov's dashing Piano Concerto or Carl Nielsen's melancholic Violin Concerto? Instead...