Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combined efforts of his erudite family (his cousin was dean of the Graduate School; his uncle founded the Pharmacy Department) barely managed to get him an A.B. degree in "four year and two quarters." Figuring he was "too damn dumb for anything else," Kyser toured the U.S. with an orchestra after graduation. But his heart stayed on campus: there are two Kyser-endowed scholarships at the university (music and dramatics), and Kyser, at 44, agonizes like sophomore over North Carolina's football team ("Will they beat Rice in the Cotton Bowl? That's what I keep asking myself...
...this doesn't mean that there weren't some notable high points in last night's performance. Anyone familiar with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in previous years must have been amazed at their competence. Enough strings have finally been found and their quality could only astound in the Pastoral Symphony. Except for some weakness still lingering in the brass, they have become a capable and well integrated group of performers...
With time out for a relaxed Thanksgiving Day, Harry Truman had worked hard all week cleaning up his desk. But at week's end, he turned out with the rest of official Washington to hear Margaret Truman sing with the National Symphony Orchestra. From the presidential box, her father beamed down as she sang Mozart's Dove Sono and Glazunov's La Primavera. She was called back for three encores, sang one-Smilin' Through-directly at her parents. "I wept," said proud Harry Truman unabashedly. "I almost tore up two programs in the excitement...
...flung upon him: two symphonies, two ballets, a Broadway musical, and the official blessing of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. Now he is rising in the field of conducting, and Tuesday's concert added to his already brilliant record in a not unenviable post as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Mozart pieces. Both were played with almost painful simplicity, endearing Bernstein in the hearts of the many to whom Koussevitzky's racy Mozart was heresy. In the B-flat Concerto, which he conducted from the piano, Bernstein achieved another tour de force for which he is famous, pacing the Orchestra with everything except his hands. Scowling, grimacing, heaving his shoulders like an asthmatic, he managed to wind himself up into every sort of contortion, but the effect was still only accuracy and taste...