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...speak of the unusual lady who had the honor to play the French horn with the Budapest string ensemble, as "snub-nosed." (I like her picture, myself.) And you deal with the instrument. The "horn" (the forest horn as the Germans call it), famed for the nobility of its tone, used chiefly to give an inner core of golden harmony to the music of the great orchestra, an instrument sonorous and yet almost incomparably romantic; for you it "beeps and purls." But that is not all. You go on to the "saliva" with which it becomes filled. Permit me, mister...
...together or be hanged separately. They urged the formation of a bloc of Danubian neutrals who would temporarily forget their sectional differences. Fortnight ago even Hungary, most intransigent of revision-seeking powers, was believed ready to join up. Then last week something happened: the big powers yanked their strongest strings, and Danubian federation was once more pulled asunder. The biggest string stretched was Count...
Belgrade was as sensitive as Bucharest to the Allied-German string-pulling in her part of Europe. Yugoslavia's most immediate problem was copper. The Yugoslav copper mines, largest of Europe, are operated by French and British companies which no longer sell to Germany. Moreover, a French trade delegation is scheduled to arrive soon in Belgrade with the explicit purpose of buying up all this copper output. The special Yugoslav dilemma is whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether...
Walter Piston: String Quartet No. 1 (Dorian String Quartet; Columbia: 5 sides). Maine-born Composer Piston, most adept of U. S. Kulturbolschewiks, racks ears softly, intricately...
...points is that he didn't make them strong enough. So far so good. But Shaw goes on to say that it is these things that are making him leave the business. He says that he starved for two years with his original band idea of regular instrumentation plus string quartet--that he finally had to make some concession to public taste and acquire a more conventional setup, and that after that, he went ahead by means of his own boot straps...