Word: grosso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Concerti Grosso, Organ Concerto and Viola Concerto...
...Dunster House Music Society is sponsoring a Brandenburg Party and open reading of Handel's Concerti Grosso, Organ Concerto and Viola Concerto. Michael Natal'90, will perform the organ parts, accompanied by violist Alexandra Moellman '89. Ken Uchino '89 will conduct the afternoon performance, in which all string players are welcome...
DIED. Ivan Tors, 66, king of the not-so-wild beasts as producer of wholesome outdoor adventure films and TV series such as Flipper, Gentle Ben, Daktari and Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion and longtime crusader for conservation of wildlife; of a heart attack; in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, where he was scouting locations for a new television series. A 1939 immigrant from Hungary, Tors eventually broke into TV and movies by producing science fiction films and 156 episodes of Sea Hunt (1957-61). During the '60s, with profits from his productions, he co-founded and ran Africa, U.S.A...
...farcical humor shows itself in this production nowhere better than in Steven Drury's music. In the first half of the play, the town officials perform a "Kitchen Symphony" on pots, frying pans, and water-coolers; after the intermission, they bring up the curtain with a solemn, processional concerto grosso for kazoo. Music seems somehow a more congenial way for these characters to communicate the timid ridiculousness of their lives than words...