Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voltage, post-Delius style--except the third of the latter group, which fell back into the style of Austin's teacher, Roy Harris. Even in the Madrigals, the linear emphasis extended to the piano parts, which maintained melodic interest at all times rather than just serving as harmonic background...
...text, I think the piece would fare best as a purely instrumental duo. On the other hand, "Dream" and "Go Seek Her Out," both for soprano, were truly vocal conceptions, the first with a chordal accompaniment for two clarinets and 'cello, and the second with an attractive arpeggiated piano background. It was a welcome relief, furthermore, to hear songs with the text set straight through instead of having the phrases repeated a dozen times. Thrown in for good measure were the four tuneful airs for soprano, violin, flute and 'cello that Addiss wrote for last fall's Eliot House production...
...morning television show Today, it discovered that TIME was a ready source of authentic material. For a report on dysautonomia, a little known affliction, a symptom of which is weeping without tears, NBC used Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant's story (TIME, June 7, 1954) for script background. Later Today planned to review the treatment of mental ills with new drugs and learned the authoritative work was a booklet by Cant, based on the story Pills for the Mind (TIME, March...
...curtain on a stock company of actors playing repertory in an English village. Leading Man Charles Manion fails to show up for his curtain call one evening because it appears that he has been done in by some member of his company. First rate rendering of an unfamiliar background...
...Doctor in the House as a gruff but good-hearted surgeon, now becomes an apopleptic ship-captain, and loses some of his charm. Similarly, devil-may-care medical school comrades are supplanted by an equally devil-may-care but less interesting ship's crew. They provide a slightly flimsy background for the doctor, Dirk Bogarde, who is essentially an innocuous straightman, requiring the accompaniment of characters more fully developed in their wiliness...