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...They foil the robbers who follow them disguised as minstrels in an empty beer keg on wheels. Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies in the region to distract the boy from his long enough for them to get the gold. This fails too when the string of hurdy-gurdies cascade down a mountain trail in a careening dance. The robbers are nabbed, the boy gets the gold...
Interest will center around the Stubbs' sextet who will be attempting to stretch its victory string, started after a defeat at the Big Green's hands just a year ago, to sixteen straight wins. Betting odds still favor the Crimson pucksters, but the home team is given a better than fighting chance to reverse that decision because of their fine showing at the Boston Garden last months when Captain Ford saved the Harvard cause with two markers in the last period...
...most unfortunate that the first in the excellent series of chamber music concerts given by the Chardon String Quartet should coincide with the mid-year examinations. The programs presented by this group have always proved interesting and apparently this year is to be no exception, for their first concert, which takes place in Paine Hall tomorrow evening, is composed entirely of eighteenth century music. The works to be heard are Mozart's String Quartet in F major (K. 590), Carl Stamitz's Duo for Violin and Cello, Opus 19, No. 1, and the same composer's Quartet in B flat...
...anything but enthusiastic when, two days later, Kirsten Flagstad sang Isolde with the miraculous freshness they had learned to expect from her. They were grateful to Manager Johnson for brushing up the ragged Met orchestra. When he began last fortnight to put on some of his second-string operas, critics sharpened their pencils and found cause for complaint...
...same, and consists of five numbers, two of which are his own arrangements. The Prelude and Final Air from the opera "Dido and Aeneas" by the seventeenth century English composer, Purcell, arranged by the conductor, is to open the program. Following that is another Mitropoulos orchestration -- Beethoven's String Quartet in C sharp minor, opus...