Word: harped
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...megalithic set of steps and blocks that are easily moved on rollers, and has designed a handsome wardrobe of costumes. Gilbert Hemsley has provided beautiful lighting without being fussy; and Herman Chessid's incidental music is better than he has provided for the Shakespeare plays--especially noteworthy is the harp and flute music that perfectly evokes the desert atmosphere around the big Sphinx...
...Stillwater, Minn. (Aug. 11). The barge has been christened Point Counterpoint, and its showmanly musical skipper is Massachusetts-born, Juilliard-educated Robert Austin Boudreau, 36. Boudreau's orchestra is almost as unorthodox as its setting. It consists entirely of wind instruments (e.g., oboes, trumpets, French horns), percussion, and harp. Since orchestral music of this sort is a rarity, Boudreau has persistently commissioned and played new works. This gives his orchestra an astringently modern tone, but he tempers it with crowd pleasers like the My Fair Lady score...
...boatmen and wandering troubadours. Communist infiltrators from Laos pass out clothing and medicine, improvise antigovernment verses on old folk songs. "Lao will be Lao," they say. "The people living in this area are Laos; those who live beyond Korat are Thais." Communism is never mentioned; instead, the Reds constantly harp on the theme that the government has wilfully neglected the northeast, promise villagers a salary of $150 a month (v. Thailand's per capita income of $105 a year) if they will join forces with the Laotian Reds...
Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). The cultural-educational children's series focuses on stamps, ravens, and the harp. Color...
...Yankee litcheratewer yet, mark my word," that "the surf-thunder of your prose is the biggest experience of my inner man." But Durrell is also warning: "Beware of cowboy evangelism and Loving Everything and Everybody Everywhere! Or you'll be doing a Carl Sandburg with a portable harp...