Word: counterpoint
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...have made a howling good farce-if it had been played for laughs. Bette Davis is a young pianist, reunited after six years with the great love of her life. Cellist Paul Henreid. While Henreid has been missing in wartime Europe, Bette has been studying life, as well as counterpoint, with famous Composer Claude Rains. But Henreid must never, never know. He must be convinced, in spite of crushing evidence to the contrary, that Bette's antique-furnished penthouse is being paid for with the proceeds of her music teaching...
...that has been dragged through a hedge backwards"), G. D'Arcy ("Stilton") Cheesewright ("a bloke of furtive aspect"), and Lady Florence Craye ("one of those intellectual girls . . . who are unable to see a male soul without wanting to get behind it and shove"). The plot is an intricate counterpoint of love-at-first-sight, financial skullduggery in shipping circles, and Berty's appearance at a ball, disguised as Sindbad the Sailor...
...cruel.") He is finishing the last act of an opera about "Aaron as the statesman and Moses the philosopher," which he laid aside in 1932 because he got out of the mood. In the next five years he intends to complete five books, two of them on counterpoint. He usually has about eight pupils, each of whom pay about $200 a month...
Save Your Fury. Mahler's widow, now in her sixties, was a 20-year-old counterpoint student when she married the slight, 41-year-old opera conductor. His ferociousness in the orchestra pit was already a legend. By abolishing the claque and ordering latecomers toa special box, Mahler had angered performers and audiences alike. Once the musicians stubbornly refused to rehearse another note, and Mahler barked: "Gentlemen, keep your fury for the performance. Then at last we shall have [it] played as it should...
...Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, once his wife. Of 24 ballets in the Ballet Russe's Manhattan repertory this season, eight were Balanchine's. The best, Concerto Barocco, consisted of a few hippy girls in black swim suits, against a plain blackdrop, contorting their bodies in strict but living counterpoint to Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor. It had none of the splendiferous sets and costumes, the "story" told in pantomime, or the applause-bidding entrechats of a star dancer which attract the matinee mobs; yet it brought down the house. Balanchine's geometric wizardry made...