Word: loveliest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...envision a large collection," explains S.M.U. Director William Jordan, "but rather one of the best." S.M.U. has already acquired some fine Goya engravings, a distinguished Velásquez portrait; other works by artists ranging from Zurbaran to Miró. The loveliest of the lot is Murillo's landscape showing Jacob with Laban's flocks (see color overleaf). As the tale is related in Genesis, Laban, who owned the sheep, told Jacob he would be paid for tending them with any lambs born spotted or speckled, and Jacob's method of inducing speckled progeny was to lay peeled...
...even sharper departure from Big Beat banalities came as Tunesmith McCartney began exhibiting an unsuspected lyrical gift. In 1965, he crooned the loveliest of his ballads, Yesterday, to the accompaniment of a string octet-a novel and effective backing that gave birth to an entire new genre, baroque-rock. Still another form, raga-rock, had its origins after George Harrison flipped over Indian music, studied with Indian sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, and introduced a brief sitar motif on the 1965 recording Norwegian Wood. Now everybody's making with the sitar...
Using as its text the loveliest passage from The Merchant of Venice the Serenade was composed in 1938 for the jubilee of the great conductor Sir Henry Wood(who once turned down the directorship of the Boston Symphony), but has justifiably long outlived its original occasion. The piece is stylistic conservatism at its best; for sheer sensuous serenity it would be hard to beat. Yesterday's players were joined by thirty-odd members of the Summer School Chorus, well prepared by Professor Harold C. Schmidt. The concertmistress solo fiddling wandered off pitch a bit, and the orchestra in general never...
...nonfiction treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft. But Shakespeare worked everything up into a fresh plot of his own -- or, rather, a skillfully unified interlocking set of three plots -- involving four classes of people from supernatural beings down to manual laborers. And on this work he lavished lots of his loveliest language...
Jean Marshall's Countess was less successful. Her voice never blended with the other, and "Dove sono i beimomento," which must be the loveliest aria in the opera, came out nervous and constricted. She might have been singing in Martian for all the words I could make...