Word: duet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Composer Jacques Lasry and several associates. The group is known in France as Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet. It plays some Bach and some Vivaldi−but Baschet's devices are more adaptable to the works of Composer Lasry, which struggle with such titles as Coil Spring Dance and Duet for Crystals...
Cannes Film Festival. But then the girl, who was born Natasha Gurdin to Russian emigre parents, met the Russian delegation to the festival. She joined a Soviet cinemactress in a duet of melancholy Russian folk songs, later chatted happily in the language she learned as a child...
...full orchestra. Yet it had so lean a texture that virtually every detail was visible - as if a chamber group were playing. The piece was remarkable not only for its intensity and melodic freedom but for the intricacy and beauty of the vocal writing, particularly in the moving duet of alto and tenor in the Prayer, and in the Narrative about the stoning of St. Stephen. Rarely since he turned to serialism has Stravinsky so closely or effectively wedded technique to feeling...
...DUET (Doris Day with the André Previn Trio; Columbia). A honey of a partnership. Doris has just the right baby-blue style to complement Previn's elegantly simple arrangements, and the material is right for both of them: Close Your Eyes, Nobody's Heart, My One and Only Love...
...score, which frequently employed the twelve-tone row, was aglow with curving lyric lines but avoided any hint of romantic lushness, was sometimes reminiscent of Stravinsky. The lightly modern music at no point obscured the text, at many points sharply illuminated it, as in a moving second-act farewell duet of Alcestis (well sung by Soprano Inge Borkh) and Admetus...