Word: duet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paris Opera Ballet. He left the ballet to fight with the Maquis during the war. At war's end he joined the small Soirées de la Danse, later the Ballet des Champs Elysées. He designed his first ballet for Nathalie-a duet to Beethoven's "Pathetique" piano sonata-and they were married shortly after. He "detests" classical duets-"too rigid, too formal. I always hate my partner." He particularly detests Nijinsky's famous Le Spectre de la Rose. "Even if you dance it well, everyone says, 'Oh, Nijinsky!": Both Babil...
Frosted Flag. After a cornet duet and a song (Indian Love Call), plump Mrs. Julia Bennett, the Chippewa historian, instructed the colonel in the "teachings and ideals in the ancient Chippewa faith," and the assembled braves and chiefs christened Bertie Me-Gee-See, i.e., "Chief Eagle." Explained Historian Bennett: "What it really means is that now he can come and dance with us any time he wants...
...Author Russell Grouse got him to put aside his contact lenses and put on horn rims. For the show's sake, willing Russell Nype has had his hair mowed down to a studious stubble. On opening night, he and Ethel Merman stopped the show with the hit duet, You're Just in Love, have been stopping it ever since...
...reads the Billboard ad for a new RCA Victor Red Seal record this week. The eminent critical authority behind the statement was Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, but serious opera fans would do well to read the small type on the label. Traubel's plug was for her new duet partner, Jimmy Durante, a man whose voice has all the golden quality of metallurgical coke...
Destination Moon (Coral). Scientifiction rears its supersonic head in a duet by Connie Haines and Bob Crosby, with subsonic swooshes by the sound-effects department...