Word: b-flat
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...best ways I've found to help one to develop," he advised Wednesday night, "is to concentrate on something simple. It might turn out to be harder than you think." Bowie waved his cane again and said. "All right, now let's have some B-flat blues...
Last week the only "money" note for the tenor in Aida-the high B-flat at the end of Celeste Aida-was rough and ragged, belted out with a desperate fortissimo instead of the more difficult pianissimo that Verdi called for in the score. Elsewhere, Pavarotti's eyes clung to the safety of the prompter's box and the conductor's baton, leaving most of the acting to Soprano Margaret Price (battling a bronchial infection but singing well nonetheless) and Stefania Toczyska, a sultry Polish mezzo and a star of the future, whose Amneris blazed with passionate...
Suicide in B-Flat is nominally concerned with the death/suicide/hoax of Niles--a Pynchon-like musician whose experimentations with sound and composition have rocketed him so far into the stratosphere that he can barely exist on the mere surface of the planet anymore. Two detectives, Louis (Christopher Randolph) and Pablo (Christian Clemenson) come in out of the mainstream and attempt to reconstruct the crime. What follows is a collage of random psychic violence and free association, philosophy and claptrap, all so intricately conceived that to follow it in any sort of literary sense is ridiculous. They talk about Shepard writing...
...grandiose are beautifully done)--but for the most part they allow themselves the restraint needed to remain unwitting victims. Occasionally the pace of the show is a bit off and the silences are lost, but for the most part the subtlety is to be commended. Suicide in B-Flat remains one of Shepard's best works, and this production, a rarity, does it justice...
...ensemble will perform Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure." Aristophanes' "The Birds," "Suicide in B-flat" by Sam Shepard, and one other play, Peter R. Mason '81, one of the organizers of the group, said yesterday...