Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently given to muttering about his mysterious true love, either unveiled the damsel herself or made a third party quite jealous. Stalked by a photographer for the London Evening News, Van was spotted strolling hand in hand with pretty, young (19) Tonina Dorati, daughter of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Antal Dorati, now also on a European tour. Earlier, Cliburn characterized his nameless heartthrob as "someone who thinks she's a musician-but she's not." By coincidence, Tonina plays the piano without distinction...
...fitted an atonal score marked by vocal passages of labyrinthine difficulty and orchestration of such transparent delicacy that it sometimes seemed like chamber music. Frequently the chorus was used unaccompanied as a tautly dramatic background to the soloists' soaring vocal lines, and in some sequences Blomdahl abandoned the orchestra altogether in favor of taped electronic effects. One scene unfolds against a Jabberwockian mixture that includes the speaking voices of Eisenhower. Khrushchev, Hitler, Mussolini and the defendants at the Nürnberg trials...
Lean, grey-haired Max Conrad is a throwback to the romantic days when pilots flew for fun and adventure as much as for profit. But he got into flying by accident. After college he started an orchestra, took up flying only so that he could transport his band from place to place more conveniently. In 1929 he gave up the band and went into the charter-flying business in his home town, Winona, Minn...
James D. Lorenz '60, President of the Debate Council, and John Harbison '60, conductor of the Bach Society Orchestra, agreed that activities complemented studies. A student is often restricted in course work from creative art, they felt...
...sixteen-bus cavalcade, complete with motorcycle escort, transported the graduates and their families to the special Pops Concert. Under the direction of Arthur Fielder, the Orchestra played such favorites as Down the Street, Look Sharp Be Sharp, and the Academic Festival Overture...