Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Originally commissioned by the Scottish Opera, the music is built on a dissonant counterpoint between the vocal lines and orchestration. Although it has little charm or lyricism, the score does have strength. And there are some masterly touches, as in a ballroom scene in Act 1 in which Bothwell (sung by Barry Busse) and his soldiers watch awkwardly as Mary (Ashley Putnam) and her courtiers dance stately pavanes. Infuriated by the perfumed elegance, Bothwell strides forward and belts forth a rough Scottish reel. The roistering tune and sinister tremolo accompaniment overwhelm the lutelike Renaissance melody of the dance...
...suggest that one night be set aside for a battle-of-the-sexes program? The aggressive husbands meet aggressive wives for a real bash; meanwhile, the poor battered husbands and wives could relax at the Roseland Ballroom...
...outsiders who have criticized one of their own, citizens of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and the Wilkes-Barre Lions Club last week honored Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood as their "Citizen of the Year." Not mentioned, of course, during the long evening of affectionate oratory at the Gus Genetti Hotel ballroom was the uncomfortable fact that the dapper 74-year-old legislator is a prime target of a federal influence-peddling investigation. Indeed, coincidentally on the eve of the dinner, the Justice Department released an affidavit in which David Marston, the former U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia whose dismissal by the Carter...
Saturday, March 11: Ballroom Dance Club: Semi-formal party. Phil Bograd and Band. Ballroom dance, music and demonstrations. Everyone welcome. Alumnae Hall Ballroom...
...camera is more at home in the salon and ballroom scenes, which perfectly convey the elegant Frenchified world of the pre-Revolutionary aristocracy, where everything is al lowed so long as it is hidden. Nearly everyone is having an affair like Anna's and Vronsky's, and adultery seems to be the thing the rich do best...