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...search for Collick dragged on and a snowstorm wetted down mob spirit, tension in Worcester County relaxed...
...version was that Norway's customs authorities at Bergen went aboard the Altmark but, honoring her service flag, did not search her. Norwegian officials claimed that the ship was stopped first outside of Trondhjem Fjord, did not call at any port. A Norwegian gunboat was assigned to escort her through Norway's territorial waters as she made for her home port, Hamburg...
Rummaging recently through the archives of various U. S. libraries in search of early U. S. music. No. 1 U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick hit upon James Hewitt's The Battle of Trenton. Last week, on a broadcast of U. S. music over WNYC, Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick played it. Though written for the most part in the measured, tinkling idiom of 18th-Century English salon music, The Battle of Trenton still preserved a smoldering crash and rumble reminiscent of the early works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Modern listeners found James Hewitt's ideas as quaint as a periwig...
Katherine Locke, as an American girl in search of her dead brother, is convincing. Lenore Ulric plays a Moorish tart with the utmost of abandon and pidgin English. Don Morrison, the comical hotel manager, provides one of the brighter spots of the evening...
Music written for harpsichord does often make better sense when played on the instrument for which it was intended. Since the harpsichord seems to have a definite place musically, it is strange that modern composers in their search for new colors and mediums have not attempted to write for it, except in a very few instances (De Falla's Concerto and his puppet-opera El Retablo de Maese Pedro, for example), It will be interesting in the future to see whether this instrument will take its place again as a medium of the expression of the time, or will remain...