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...somewhat overwrought revelation, Young sees the lovers' departure as an omen of the day when "Deseret too will go out into the great world . . ." Composer Kastle provided a surgingly lyrical score admirably suited to the moods of the text. One of its high points was a rhapsodic duet between the heroine, expertly portrayed by Soprano Judith Raskin, and the officer ("No rival heart/ No rival wife/ Will come/ Between our flesh/ Our love"). Other standouts: a triumphant final sextet celebrating the "lesson of love," and the heroine's sprightly address to a mirror to variations of Come, Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Romantic Modernist | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity." Zamira did not grow up to be a musician, but she soon made it plain that she found Fou's piano music just as enthralling as papa's fiddling. Last week, after becoming a matrimonial duet in a northern suburb of London, she and Fou Ts'Ong, 25, went honeymooning to Malta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 2, 1961 | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. A publishing duet, about the islands of Corfu and Rhodes, by the author of The Alexandria Quartet confirms his superlative gift as a travel writer who uses scenery to intensify personal feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 21, 1960 | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

Lawrence Durrell is an islomane. A friend of his coined the word for those who find islands irresistible, especially Aegean islands. In this publishing duet, the author of The Alexandria Quartet writes of two isles in the wine-dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adrift on a Wine-Dark Sea | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...intervals. Presently Dancer Merce Cunningham started undulating in symbolic suggestion of an embryo wriggling toward manhood. By Round 3, when Cage was thumping his piano stool with a rock, the restive audience began to jeer. The jeers grew in Round 4. as Cage and Tudor launched into a piano duet, playing chords with their elbows while assaulting the piano's innards with knives and pieces of tin. After Round 6, in which Cage slammed the piano top with an iron pipe and dropped bottles on the floor, an elderly music lover strode to the stage, walloped Cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yesterday's Revolution | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

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