Word: lullabye
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Keen-eared Western diplomats in Geneva last week thought they detected the faintest softening in Peking's tone. Perhaps it was just a lullaby over the Laos settlement, or maybe the Reds were too hungry at home to take on external adventures. At any rate, in his closing speech...
Yet Mother, and Father too, are being cut down by the terrors of old age: "Surfaces that were once level tilt." Life has become a cantilevered terrace that has taken a crazy tilt. A letter read by Father evokes a vision of the children when they were tots frolicking fondly...
Mr. Thompson's music, scored for a chamber orchestra, organ, chorus, and the figures of the Pageant, is unadorned, often almost spare, and calmly joyous. A bustlingly rustic fugue hurries the shepherds towards Bethlehem, where they celebrate the Nativity in an awkward but loving dance. Mary croons a soft lullaby...
The quality of the performance fluctuated curiously. At times, in the "Lullaby," for instance, the piano overpowered the flute. Yet in the roaring "Intermezzo," Miss Chamberlain, much as she may have tried, could not be sufficiently brutal.
At his Mount Kisco, N.Y., studio, Pace and an assistant handle 40 students-including Pace's own four children, aged six to twelve-who get no chance to dawdle. At one recital, a seven-year-old girl rippled off a lullaby in the key of F, played it again...