Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speaks: "You're looking all choked up and strange, Slugger." He explains sheepishly that he is reading a detective story. "Yes ... ?" "Well, so there's this wounded guy, and suddenly the detective whips off, um, her panty hose and makes a tourniquet to stop the bleeding." Spenser's consort, the reader supposes, suggests Agatha Christie and counseling...
...grateful for this being voted, this award, together, to be shared together," Tandy said, nodding toward the man who had been her co-star and consort for 52 years, and who now held her hand. Then she addressed her own mortality, as well as her place among the theater's immortals: "And I am particularly grateful for the opportunity to step once more upon the stage...
Their release of the Consort Music of William Byrd is a most welcome complement to the Tallis Scholars' sublime recording of Byrd's Great Service on Gimell...
Most of the pieces Byrd wrote for the viol consort were based on a plainsong theme, supported by contrapuntal figurations by the accompanying instruments. Though the bare-bones outline of the form itself is admittedly simple, those who simply dismiss Byrd's mantric writing as constricting or stultifying miss the point...
...viol consort playing itself, the technical and artistic execution most enjoyable, and I especially appreciated the carefully treated passages where Byrd deliberately toyed with dissonance...