Word: counterpointed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). An experiment in avant-garde orchestration, with the razorback rhythms of Tennessee Ernie as counterpoint to the Elgaresque swells of Charles Laughton...
Cabled a TIME correspondent from the Brussels opening: "The audience applauded mightily, but the work had moments rather than momentum. The music consisted of only a few themes linked by weak chains. One motif-that of romantic love-was warm, sweet and haunting. And occasionally voices rose in skillful counterpoint. There were echoes of Puccini-one was tempted, as a Belgian critic put it, to shout at Menotti: 'All right then, simply sing like Puccini...
...Counterpoint...
...Counterpoint. In Athens, Greece, guitar-plunking street-corner singers ignored angry shouts from sleepy citizens, continued their serenade until accomplices had looted two neighborhood shops...
...Egyptian belly dance and a Greek striptease, at gladiatorial combat in the arena. In his experimental dance technology, Moiseyev brilliantly scrapped most of the cliché-laden movements and figures of Russian classical ballet, while retaining classical techniques of body control. Moreover, Moiseyev did away with the traditional counterpoint between soloist and corps de ballet, made mass dancing the ballet's main feature ("My hero," says Moiseyev, "is the masses...