Word: duets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since then; Frager won the Leventritt and Queen Elisabeth competitions; Ashkenazy tied for first in Russia's Tchaikovsky contest. But their letters have dwelt on one remaining ambition: a two-piano recital. This spring Frager went to Russia for a concert tour, and last week the long-planned duet with Ashkenazy finally took place...
Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art (Alfred Deller, countertenor; Vanguard) is a happy new appearance of Purcell's birthday music for Queen Mary, this time with Deller and his countertenor son, Mark, sharing the sublime duet...
Provocative Fact. The eleven played a difficult repertory that tested all their talents-the overture of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Chopin's Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, a recitative and duet for tenor and soprano from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Then, as a harrowing surprise treat, each was given the score to Tadeusz Baird's Czetry Eseje-a contemporary work none of them had seen before-and told to be on the podium in four minutes, ready to conduct. Six survived. Said Chief Judge Bernstein darkly: ''One provocative fact: there...
...Solomons, Jr. and Jack Moore were uneven, having spots of brilliance, but the total effect was not captivating. Although Moore managed at a high point in "Songs Remembered" to make his running circles backward around the stage surprisingly exciting, some parts of his choreography, particularly in the love duet, were simply clinches...
...their attendants and stripped of their outer robes. In bikini and tights, they dance a pulsing pas de deux that ends in a crouching embrace. Their attendants return, tug them apart and restore their robes, but the partnered dance that follows suggests the first steps of the love duet. The ballet ends-a courtly, exotic, unresolved sexual fantasy...