Word: gores
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Gerald Wilfring Gore is a prolific arranger of music who for years made a modest living turning out choral adaptations of such varied works as Home on the Range, Pestalozza's Ciribiribin, William Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus. Last week, in Manhattan's Caspary Auditorium, a crowd of musical professionals gathered to honor Arranger Gore on his 75th birthday. But the man who rose to take a shy bow at concert's end was known to the audience not as Gerald Gore but as Composer Wallingford Riegger...
Although the compositions of Wally Riegger are widely and justly admired, particularly by fellow composers, the man who created them has always had to make a living doing something else. Gerald Gore is only one of nine pseudonyms under which Riegger has written about 400 arrangements at $40 apiece. Most of them, he testifies, "were claptrap; they were well done, but none of them caused any thrills." Nevertheless, they "turned an honest penny" for Gore-Riegger; along with teaching, they enabled him to devote the rest of his time to the compositions that, far from claptrap, are among the most...
...Best Man. Tn the setting of a smoke-filled political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with topical dexterity, and much of the lively show's appeal lies in identifying the three biggest pieces of cardboard...
...Otranto). Eventually housewives and what Hawthorne called "female scribblers" took over the sentimental novel; as a romantic fantasy it has paced U.S. bestseller lists ever since. When Charles Brockden Brown, a graceless but serious 18th century writer, replaced Italian ruins with the American wilderness and aristocratic doom with Indian gore-in such novels as Edgar Huntly-the gothic novel became the favored mode of major U.S. novelists from Melville to Faulkner...
...Best Man (by Gore Vidal), Broadway's salute to an election year, is a lively theater piece laid at a fanciful 1960 national convention and concerned with a fierce struggle between two would-be nominees. Former Secretary of State Melvyn Douglas is urbane, intellectual and endowed with scruples; Senator Frank Lovejoy is self-made, self-obsessed and swollen with ambition. When a tough old pro of an ex-President rejects the role of kingmaker, Lovejoy plans to knock out Douglas by reviving a forgotten mental breakdown; and if Douglas will stoop, he in turn can bring...