Word: duet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit side, and almost worth the price of admission, is Johann Strauss's delightful score, notably the famed Treasure Waltz, a melting Act II love duet, and plenty of Hungarian themes, both martial and melancholy. Another plus: Designer Rolf Gérard's brilliant costumes and sets, particularly a Viennese throne room almost handsome enough to bring back the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Heavily on the minus side are a preposterous libretto, not aided by Translator Maurice Valency's English lyrics, and Cyril Ritchard's uncertain direction...
...evening duet by Chester Robert Huntley (New York) and David McClure Brinkley (Washington) presents the news with unusual (for TV) restraint: its stars are both unexcitable men who seldom pontificate but project an air of unassuming authority and easy informality. "I'm a newsman using TV as my special medium," says Chet Huntley. The key to their success is the fact that they are pros (both have spent most of their working lives as newsmen of the air, with early stints on newspapers) dedicated to the principle that news is not show business...
...opening work was the quaint Duet in D Major by Haydn. There followed the Duo for Violin and Violoncello by the contemporary composer Bohuslav Martinu, a work that is full of technical difficulties and cadenza-like passages for the two instruments. The final work was Ravel's splendid Sonata for Violin and Violoncello, which elicted the most enthusiastic response from the audience...
...program, open to the public, will include Haydn's Duet in D Major, Martinu's Duo for Violin and 'Cello, and Ravel's Sonata for Violin and 'Cello...
...last week's performance, Moon proved to be a frolicsome work with a gaily rippling score, evocative of Haydn's more celebrated The Seasons. If it was sometimes as thin as the moon's atmosphere itself, it also offered several rollicking ensembles, a rousing love duet, and a bubbly beat, as if Papa Haydn had been determined to do a gavotte straight into the stratosphere...