Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crusades. A revival of Cecil B. DeMille's splendid pageant of medieval Europe at The Great Noontide of religious energy (TIME, June...
...asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy admitted that Wagner had his points: the music of Parsifal is "incomparable and bewildering, splendid and strong...
...White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., the Duke of Windsor also took honors of a sort. He was by far the sportiest of a sartorially splendid foursome. His competition: British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler and Railroader Robert R. Young...
...conductor he could trust. Before a performance of Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri, Toscanini once called on him, told him that he felt a retard was needed in one passage of the Te Deum. When Verdi heard him play it, he patted him on the back, said: "Splendid! That is just how I heard it in my mind." "Why didn't you write it that way?" asked Toscanini. Said Verdi: "I was afraid it would be exaggerated." Said Giacomo Puccini of Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of his La Boheme: "Toscanini conducts a work not just...
Mozart: Symphony in G Minor, No. 40 (K.550) (The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Pittsburghers may gnash their teeth for letting Fritz Reiner go (TIME, March 8) after hearing this splendid performance of a great symphony. Recording (Columbia's first on Vinylite): excellent...