Word: lushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Gershwin maintained that Porgy and Bess was a real opera, not a glorified Broadway musical, but until recently, few believed him. Early productions generally truncated his ample (more than three hours) score, cut down its lush orchestration and substituted spoken dialogue for the recitatives. But there has been growing interest in an authentic Porgy, beginning with the Houston Grand Opera's 1976 production and followed by an even more opulent version seen at New York's Radio City Music Hall two years ago. Last week, 50 years after its premiere, Porgy came all the way uptown to the Metropolitan...
...walk up the steep College Hill from the grey industrial town of Providence to the lush green enclosed Brown University gradually reveals a small group of sign-bearing protestors. They can be seen every Friday afternoon rush hour proclaiming their message against United States intervention into Central America to all who make their way up the hill...
Moorcock takes large risks. An egomaniac with repugnant views is hard to take at great length. There is a predictable pattern to Pyat's adventures as child of the century. But there are rewarding detours: Moorcock's lush descriptions of landscapes and the world's great cities, and a parade of characters that would feel at home in the novels of Dickens, Nabokov and Henry Miller...
...From lush Linda to contrary Kinks, a list of holiday pleasures...
Linda Ronstadt: Lush Life (Asylum). Also starring Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. This is a sequel to last year's surprising smash, What's New, in which Ronstadt, her arranger-conductor and his orchestra proved that anything old could be renewed again, probably-given this kind of talent-in perpetuity. Lush Life is rather more playful and relaxed than its predecessor, as if the singer felt vindicated by her decision to refurbish some of pop's sturdiest standards. There is a kittenish sexuality singeing the edges of some of the twelve songs here; Mean to Me sounds...