Word: finest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though two of the Abbey's finest actors, Cyril Cusack and Siobhan McKenna, returned for this production, the acting somehow seems stagey and lackluster. Surface characterization is emphasized at the expense of deeper emotional involvement. Siobhan McKenna plays Bessie Burgess with grandeur but drops the ends of her lines; Scorcha Cusack staggers a bit too much as Nora. Bill Foley, as Peter Flynn, says his lines as though reading them for the first time. Maire O'Neil, as the prostitute Rosie, makes immediate some of O'Casey's profoundest lines, his true revolutionary credo of communism--but her characterization slips...
Among the three international superstars of conducting, Sir Georg Solti and Leonard Bernstein are almost overly familiar to audiences in the U.S. Herbert von Karajan is a more remote, elusive figure. In 1955 he was appointed conductor for life of the Berlin Philharmonic, one of the finest orchestras in the world. In the years since, he has exercised complete control over its rehearsals, working conditions, personnel and guest artists. Today he can say: "I cannot now blame anybody else for not getting the results I want. No excuses. If it's wrong, it's entirely my fault...
...just any old chorus gets invited to even participate in the Music Festival in Spoleto, Italy. But only the finest of the groups in the world get invited to function as the Festival Chorus. The latter distinction was bestowed recently upon Harvard's Collegium Musicum, a collection of 70 amateur vocalists who combine to form a chorus of undeniably professional caliber. The mixed chorus of 70 who, as one member put it, "like to sing more than just about anything else," will present their first concert of the season this Friday night in St. Paul's Church...
...male. This lack provoked a number of women to recruit some men--and form a splinter choral group which ultimately would serve two crucial functions: it would operate as a vehicle for women to exercise their vocal cords and as a medium by which some of the world's finest choral music--works for mixed choruses--could be performed at Harvard...
...this weekend, Collegium will perform some of the finest of the mixed choral music ever composed. The formidable ensemble will sing the young Mozart's Missa Solemnis, Sancta Maria, Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie K. 323, Qualite Primum Regnum, and Venite Populi...