Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senturia admits, "I'm by no means a finished musician. I'm still studying with scores, at the piano, or `by ear. There is no real set pattern of advanced study for a musician, and as a conductor I must build up my repertory." To help accomplish this, and, more important, to provide more interest at the HRO's rehearsals, Senturia often conducts the Orchestra in pieces not meant specifically for concerts, a new practice this year. "This gives us all more variety and wider acquaintance with musical literature...
...script calls for dusk at this point, and Ben Edwards provides splendidly perceptible and atmospheric gloom to emphasize the foreboding mood. But the almost surreal quality of this passage, its combination of mystery and sublimity that survives the most dreary Shavian bathos when read with half an ear and half a soul, is turned by its current interpreters into a distracted pandering for tepid chuckles. Mr. Clurman has caused the weird chant to be accompanied by a jolly jig, and Maurice Evans delivers Shotover's curtain line with a phlegmy ingratiation that completely drains it of grandeur...
Hooray for your reporter who did the Prima-Smith bit in SHOW BUSINESS-clearly a writer with discerning eye, ear and wit. Although you'll receive heavy abuse from their fans, and Louis will chortle ''all the way to the bank." it's encouraging to read such a clear analysis of this gruesome twosome and their gutter-grade maneuvers...
...that the pair of them-he all scorn for marriage, she all scorn for men-are so antagonistic for being so much alike. Fortunately, the dullards around them dream up one bright idea: they contrive that an eavesdropping Benedick shall hear that Beatrice absolutely dotes on him, that an ear-cocked Beatrice shall learn that Benedick is half dead for love...
Last spring's Student Council book drive netted some 3,500 books (weighing two tons), some 1,500 more than the original goal. The books, sent through the World University Service, are ear-marked for Nigerian and Pakistani students...