Word: celtic
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...cheered Dancer St. Denis. Her dream for the future: a "ballet of the states," in which she would be the Statue of Liberty. ¶ At Massachusetts' famed Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Britain's Margaret Morris, 64, was appearing with her new dance group, the Celtic Ballet of Scotland. Paris-born Dancer Morris has few illu sions about her own barefoot dancing and choreographic style. Says she: "Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis are the Ice Age; I'm about the Stone Age." But her kilted troupe charmed the critics with Scottish folk dances done with...
When their fellow Europeans left them in peace, the people of Flanders, Celtic in origin, were kept busy fending off the onslaughts of a still more implacable foe-the grey, pounding rollers of the North Sea, which time and again broke over Flanders' beaches to flood the low-lying flatlands behind. From earliest times the people of Flanders were forced so often to seek refuge with their northern neighbors, the Frisians, that they came at last to be known as Vlaming, the Frisian word for refugee. Their land was Vlandria, land of the refugees...
...Celtic Brünnhilde. The Met's Zinka Milanov is one of the few. Possessed of a voice unsurpassed nowadays for sheer beauty and warmth, Yugoslav Soprano Milanov has a controlling interest in the company's dramatic Italian leads, i.e., in Aïda, Trovatore, Forza del Destino, and a monopoly on Norma. After a whole season of preparation for the part, she appeared on stage looking something like a Celtic Brünnhilde...
...harp, he played nothing that was not written specifically for his instrument. Instead of misty sound effects and undulating glissandos that have become a trademark of harp performances, he played clean-cut melody and counterpoint. High point: Hindemith's Sonata (1939), with its ear-twisting harmonies and Celtic echoes...
...vigor of the times, e.g., the annual ceremony of a human sacrifice to the sun god, in which a red-haired youth chosen by the druids has his heart pierced with a mistletoe stake; Claudius' surprise weapon, a cavalry of elephants and camels, stampeding the horses of the Celtic charioteers into snorting, neighing chaos...