Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back to an earlier period and have a great deal in common with the songs of Faure. Miss Fuerstman, who is studying for a Masters in voice at the Manhattan School, failed to achieve a sense of phrasing in the more declamatory songs; elsewhere, however, she exhibited a rare blend of spirit and control. Both compositions of Poulenc suffered from problems of balance...
Died. La Verne Andrews, 51, eldest of the singing Andrews Sisters, who quit school in 1932 at age 17 with sisters Maxine, then 14, and Patti, 12, to play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Lack of orchestral blend, sluggish tempi, square, measure-bound phrasing, and the acoustical recalcitrance of Sanders Theatre all prevented the Symphony's ever getting off the ground. And one should not be left unenthralled by Brahms...
Among today's rich blend of young violin virtuosos, it would take a mouthful as well as an earful to match the likes of Itzhak Perlman, 21, Young Uck Kim, 19, and Pinchas Zuckerman, 18. Their close friend and former classmate scores high on all counts. His name is James Oliver Buswell...
...Alabama, Frank Rose has given his state good reason for pride. He has upgraded the faculty, brought in tens of millions of dollars in research money, sharply expanded the graduate departments-and helped build national-championship football teams to boot. Until recently, he has even managed, with a blend of geniality and tact, to get along with a state legislature normally suspicious of higher education. No longer. Last week he seemed on the verge of resignation after an angry struggle with legislators over the university's right to air unpopular opinions...