Word: duet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each group will perform two or three original Water routines. Besides the tango act, Ann Clark '49, president of the Dolphins, and Christine Bosshard '51 will do a waltz duet. Part of the act will consist of waltz duet. Part of the act will consist of shadow swimming: one girl doing a back stroke on the surface while the other cuts underwater with a reverse stroke...
...original music barely recognizable. As the townswomen trooped onstage, Britten represented each with a different solo instrument-chilling woodwinds, a whining oboe, a trumpet or cymbals. Smack in the middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances as a C sharp and C natural grinding together; at other times, to an orchestral accompaniment that was as clear...
Almost unnoticed at Springfield was Progressive Day. Vice-Presidential Candidate Glen Taylor drew a crowd of only 300 people, but they were enthusiastic. He assured them that the Russians "desperately crave peace," ended up by singing a duet with his wife. He sang It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary while she gave out with "What you gonna do when the rent comes 'round?" Witnesses declared it was more sensational than anything the fair could offer-the two cows made of butter, or even "Hitler's and Eva Braun's Love Car Worth...
...that the work is undramatic. With such forces at his command, Stravinsky does not fail to write a work that is extraordinarily forceful, directed, and climactic. Musically such features as brisk contrapuntal sections for the chorus, brilliant duet and solo-against-chorus writing, and a beautiful under-statement of the last words of both Oedipus and the onlookers make a performance of the work a moving and exciting occasion...
...perky jigs in the woodwinds to forceful, discordant barkings in the brass. The Met's soggy chorus would need a shot in the arm to handle some of the rounds, which sound like sea chanties and are as complex as a Bach fugue. Singers found themselves singing one duet written in different keys. There were none of the arias that most Italian operas hand out like a free lunch-but the audience would find at least a few things...