Word: glittered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though SHAPE'S officers may groan at the thought of swapping Paris' glitter for bucolic Belgium, locals around Casteau consider the choice a stroke of luck. Real estate prices have doubled, and rents are sure to follow. Besides, many of the residents share a SHAPE passion: "I'm looking forward to the Americans," says one Casteau golfer. "We need some competition...
...provided an environment in which not only can the art of opera flourish but opera's mystique as well. Neither really modern nor really traditional, neither daring nor conservative, the house spills over with the wealth and the glitter and the grand irrationalities of myth and legend that together form the compelling unreality of opera itself, a dream world of the Theater of the Surd...
...played it so beautifully at Aspen was 38-year-old Jacob Lateiner, whom most professionals would call "a musician's musician," which is another way of saying that he lacks the glamour and glitter so dazzling to most nonprofessionals among concert audiences. The pros, on the other hand, call him one of the finest interpreters of Beethoven since Artur Schnabel. "The remarkable quality about Lateiner's playing," says Composer Elliott Carter, "is his depth of understanding." It is an understanding that Lateiner has distilled from scholarly scrutiny of the original manuscripts of the music he plays. A collector...
Pride & Prejudice. Despite his virtuosity, Previn's reputation in serious music circles was tarnished by his Hollywood glitter. "Wherever I went to conduct," he complains, "it was always 'Hollywood's Andre Previn came here last week and . . .' To have written a Broadway score is O.K., even admirable; having played a lot of jazz is O.K., but less admirable. But somehow, having worked in Hollywood is like being a well-known whore...
...poem in the issue, if we except Eric Anderson's extemporaneous blues price which I am not qualified to judge but did not enjoy reading. John Lewis' "Certitudes," which think the right word is "reassuring." His poems in the March issue, particularly "The Uses of Poetry," had more glitter, but Mr. Lewis is a consistently skilled and mature writer. This poem, an anatomy of a dying grandmother, works...