Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers' revels. The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov is fought in a dawnlit forest where snow and awakening sky gleam with as many frosty gradations of white as a pearl fresh from the sea. When Pierre, a civilian at the front, hears the opening guns of the bloody concert at Borodino, he runs awkwardly along a hillside, trying to peer ahead through a tangle of shrubbery until at last he stops breathless on a vantage point. The camera becomes his dazzled eye as it reveals spread out before him the Russian lines and advanced batteries, then a wide, uptilted...
When American musicians fly to Europe, they usually touch down in Ireland as many tourists do, take on a few drams of Paddy's at Shannon and travel on. But when the Boston Symphony set up its five-week tour, it scheduled its first foreign concert in Cork...
...orchestra brought along one of its trustees, Boston Insurance Broker Michael T. Kelleher. Before the concert began last week in the 1,500-seat Savoy Theater, Mike Kelleher drew cheers when he spoke of his father who had emigrated to the U.S. from County Cork. Then the orchestra set its gesture to music, opened its program with U.S. Composer Leroy Anderson's Irish Suite, a collection of slick arrangements of Irish tunes...
...died in Paris three days before) received a ten-minute ovation. Next day, before a top-drawer audience in Dublin, the ovation was repeated. But the Irish Times critic was totally unmoved by the sentimentality of the occasion. "The orchestra is very accomplished," he wrote, after the Cork concert. "It plays with great precision and a fine, sensitive response to the conductor's expressive beat. The accomplishment, however, is mainly technical . . . The Sorcerer's Apprentice promised well, but soon fell into machined precision, like those great American cars which speed along comfortably...
...sort that had previously been made in candy or wax. He could turn his patron's dining table into a miniature park or stage alive with glistening birds or gaily obscene mimes from the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Sometimes he would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part of a humorous circle of distractions derived from Molière, in which the gallant's daring is brought to nothing by the lady's jealous lap dog and busy blackamoor...