Word: larking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traces his ancestry to 15th century Spain, grew up in Lausanne, Switzerland, where his father was a pharmacist. The family lived in the house of famed Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet. "Stravinsky and MiIhaud used to visit often," Abravanel recalls. "I played piano four-hands with Stravinsky as a lark." He went to Berlin to study with a brilliant young composer named Kurt Weill. In 1933 both men fled Nazi Germany for Paris. There, Abravanel became a ballet conductor, performing the premiere of the Balanchine-Brecht-Weill ballet-with-song, The Seven Deadly Sins...
...Crimson may have "swept away" this contest, as Ned Bacon phrased it, but the squad entwines a Princeton club on February 7 that will not be such a lark. Princeton is bristling with racquet talent but the Crimson hope to humble the Tigers with their well-honed array of drop shots, reverse corners, and three-wall nicks...
...says Rich, who often stays up all night writing a second or third draft of his column. "And going to screenings is not like going to the movies. First of all, you see a lot of bad movies--the great movies are fun, a lot of it is a lark, but a lot of it's shit. Sometimes it's like combat duty." Rich feels most successful, most satisfied with the way his life is going, when he is writing well. When he is writing badly, all the townhouses, finances, telephone-answering machines and New York Post messengers...
Rare Staging. So it is with the 83 string quartets. Often they are passed off as mere charming rusticana; titles like The Lark and The Sunrise do not help. Yet many of the quartets (to name but a few: Op. 20, Nos. 4 and 5; all of Op. 33 and Op. 54; Op. 77, No. 2) rank with Beethoven for power and ingenuity. The New Hungarian and Juilliard quartets will show why in recitals this week and next. Beethoven himself stood in awe of Haydn's oratorios The Seasons and The Creation. They are both on the schedule...
...took the job on a lark," Baker said yesterday. "I did what I could with...