Motion Picture Windjammer: Captain from Castile, product of three years' study of Spanish source material dealing with the conquest of Mexico, was sold in 1944, for motion picture production, before publication. It was translated into 18 languages, including Pakistani and Turkish. Prince of Foxes, a sweeping Renaissance tapestry, published in 1947, also became a motion picture. The King's Cavalier (1950) and Lord Vanity (1953), the latter also sold to the motion pictures, were likewise immensely popular.
Gould's Lincoln Legend (1942) was conducted by Arturo Toscanini in an NEC Symphony Orchestra broadcast. Gould's other compositions include Latin American Symphonette (1941); Interplay for Piano and Orchestra (1943); the musical comedies Billion Dollar Baby (1945) and Arms and the Girl (1950); the ballets Fall River Legend (1948) and Fiesta (1957); Tap Dance Concerto (1952); Showpiece for Orchestra (1954); and the soundtrack for the motion picture Windjammer (1957).
Gould's compositional style varies among the dry and nervous, the smartly sentimental, and the jazzy. He is perhaps the leading American musician to have spanned successfully the genuinely popular and the serious.
Such findings would go unnoticed without alert observation, intensive study, and erudite comprehension in the laboratory or clinic.) Some well-known examples of serendipitous discovery include the use of certain antihistamines for the prevention of motion sickness, the therapeutic value of the sulfonamides, and perhaps the most picturesque-a suitable plot for a historical novel or motion picture-the discovery of the antibiotic properties of penicillin.
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