Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida's string sections had strength and clarity, its winds played with ease and flexibility. The full 75-piece orchestra could build to a battering climax and-often a lot more difficult-hush to a whispering pianissimo. The program was conventional, except for one of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos' torrid Bachianas Brasileiras. But the playing was of the caliber that makes such big-name performers as Helen Traubel, Yehudi Menuhin and Artur Rubinstein, recent soloists with the Florida, glad to return for more...
...years. Its conductor, Rafael Kubelik, was in an awkward spot, since the Chicago is not renewing his contract (the Metropolitan Opera's Fritz Reiner will succeed him). But he picked an ambitious program, including Beethoven's Eroica and Modernist Bohuslav Martinu's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Kettledrums, and led his musicians in some expansive, grand-manner interpretations...
...throw away that pearl. Dye, it string it and it will provide that extra needed color account to your little black dress. The dog collar is still with us, vying with classic links and pendants for the fashion spot. Our model wears engine-turned golden links with her Carmen hoops...
...again, by the time you have read this column, you may have decided to conform. Don't let us disappoint you. Our tips may be more effective when teamed with this year's string-bean lines. Yet they'll certainly spike any old lore in the closet...
...traditionally straight, string-beanish outline is growing straighter. Whether the impulse originated along New York's Madison Avnue, London's Saville Row, or Cambridge's Mount Auburn Street, is of little consequence. The important thing is that male styles are gradually turning back to Edward VII for a model...