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...Charlie Dressen and shook hands heartily-although Robinson, for one, displayed a certain air of suspicion when he was summoned to meet "the King." Feisal betrayed only polite interest as Leo Durocher screamed at the umpire and rooters filled the air with horrid sound. When the Giants' Bobby Thomson hit a home run he smiled at O'Malley in congratulation, apparently feeling that this was good for the Dodgers...
...cracking roles as the lead in Wozzeck and Rabbi Azrael in The Dybbuk; last season he gave more concerts with orchestra than any other U.S. baritone. Last week, at a time when most hard-working men were snoozing in vacation hammocks, Mack Harrell was still at it: singing Virgil Thomson's intricate new Five Songs of William Blake at Aspen...
...past 50 years "by independent creators, exercising the priceless gifts of freedom and self-expression." The U.S. will be represented by the Boston Symphony and the New York City Ballet, by the music of such native American composers as Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Walter Piston and Virgil Thomson and of such adopted Americans as Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith...
Vivaldi, master violinist that he was, proved again that he wrote more beautifully for strings than any of his contemporaries, e.g., Bach and Handel. And his music is permeated with a sunny warmth unequaled by his northern competitors. The Herald Tribunes Virgil Thomson ended his review with a burst of continental enthusiasm. "Evviva Vivaldi! And let's have more of him." There is plenty more to hear, and the Vivaldi boom shows every sign of settling down into a thorough, long-range revival...
Last year, this time in Stanky's second season with a new club, the Giants won the pennant in one of the most dramatic finishes baseball has ever produced. Bobby Thomson's home run clinched the pennant, but 156 games had already been played, and Stanky had worked mightily in 145 of them. Durocher tells of Stanky's role: "To win a pennant you gotta win the tight ball games. And to win those tight ones, those one-run games, you gotta have guys who won't quit till they...