Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Singing magnificently in her rich, bronzelike voice, she began with O del mio dolce ardor, by Gluck, went on to Quella fiamma che m'accende, by Benedetto Marcello, Ständchen and Zueignung, by Richard Strauss. Invitation au Voyage and Le Manoir de Rosamonde, by Henri du Pare, Boatmen's Dance, by Aaron Copland. Out in the Fields with God, by William Dawson...
...danced radiantly, even if her hand positions seemed awkward at times. It was in the second act that Nureev-Fonteyn captured their audience. Nureev put on a breath-catching display of classic male dancing, lifted Fonteyn effortlessly aloft, spurred her on to a performance full of fluency and lyric ardor. At the ballet's climax, when Fonteyn cradled Nureev's head in her arms as he lay on the point of death, there was a quick intake of breath audible through the entire house...
Serenaded by such unrevolutionary slogans, the factory workers who make up 38% of the Communist Party's rolls are showing some loss of political ardor. The Communist Party is offering television sets and typewriters as prizes for comrades who sign up the most recruits. The party merchandizers also give away six-month subscriptions to the Red newspaper. L'Unità,* at the end of the free-trial period, a copy of L'Unità arrives with an unsolicited gift-a party card made out to the head of the family. But the party's drive...
...Francisco Symphony's Russian-born and trained Naum Blinder, later listened to recordings of the Austrian Fritz Kreisler and the Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe. What emerged from this combination of influences was a manner of playing that is best described as modified romantic-Slavic ardor and butter-smooth tone, under the taut discipline of a scholarly musical mind...
...work, he says, when he was flying across the country at 33,000 ft.-hence the music's "quality of aspiration." Often rising at 3 a.m. and working through until midnight, Harris finished his 22-minute symphony in one month. As played last week, it had all the ardor, the sinewy strength, the luminosity and clarity of theme of Harris' best works. Among the more unusual touches: an amplified piano, played by Harris' wife Johana, that at times seemed to envelop the entire orchestra...