Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...common synthesis that makes a "Third Stream" piece, Blake said, is one that blends elements of classical style, such as Bach, with elements of jazz, such as Duke Ellington. But it could also be created in less obvious ways, such as in combinations of Bartok's style with ethnic Greek rhythms...
...More like a short story, Watson. And hardly new. A Mr. Ellery Queen will have already written A Study in Terror in 1966, postulating that Jack was an aristocrat named the Duke of Shires. Other literature will theorize that the killer was a Scotland Yard inspector or a member of the royal family...
...unspecified songs, followed by a dance (choreographed by Graciela Daniele) in which the white-masked members of the court all participate. We seem to be watching a traditional Twelfth Night masque. And all this preliminary music gives added point to the play's opening lines, in which Duke Orsino refers to the "excess" of music, to a "dying fall" (which is accurately fitted to a descending cadence), and finally requests a halt...
...then, to find Laurence Guittard imbuing the role with solidity! Orsino's understanding lags behind his feelings, but the man does feel. Guittard gives us the melancholy, but he also gives us the passion and assertiveness (the name Orsino, after all, means "bearish"). He speaks sonorously and creates a duke of real size...
...more functional side, the Wimbledon finals will be on the tube Saturday afternoon. At this writing, the men's finalists are Borg and Connors, and Martina Navratilova and the redoubtable Chris Evert will duke it out for the women's crown. And for you lovers of the Boston Lobsters, who are still off on their Wimbledon break, well, at last report the team was hotly pursued by a chef with a New burgh recipe. Stay tuned. Seriously, the Wimbledon finals will be on Channel 4, starting Saturday at 12:30 and going on until the cows come home...