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Word: lute (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madrigale afettuoso, a bit too obvious in intent to touch the modern listener properly, followed fine contrapuntal fun on simple scale practices. In spite of a cough, soprano Liliana Rossi filled Sanders with a beautifully clear tone, while the rest of the sextet took the part of a lute...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Sestetto Italiano | 2/13/1962 | See Source »

...Diaz began his program brilliantly with a series of 16th century lute transcriptions and played even more superbly with each succeeding selection. The effect of the 16th and 17th century music was enhanced by the drawing room atmosphere of Holmes' living room, the fine nuances of the guitar's tone are usually lost in large concert halls...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Alirio Diaz | 2/8/1962 | See Source »

...went to Hollywood, and in ten years turned out more than a dozen films; in New York he directed Mary Martin in Lute Song and Robert Ryan in Coriolanus. Trying television, he produced Playhouse go for two seasons. Most notably, however, he was artistic director of the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., built it from an initial failure into a successful operation in four seasons. He quit in disgust two years ago when the trustees would not let him establish a permanent repertory company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: The Moonlighter | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Gentle, well-mannered, the sweet strings of our Orphean lute add melody to the clamour. The Crimson is a local paper, and it will support its team. The mighty Red Sox have tasted the bitter almonds of defeat more than once, but they are ours and we cannot graciously renounce them. Simple loyalty is a more powerful force than all the serpents, who hiss the tunes of realistic appraisal. The Red Sox will endure. The noble Williams, who so justly detested his public, and whose grand saliva made rainbows inspiring to behold, is no longer with them, but they will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Team | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...spectacle" films long enough to commission a suburban comedy of manners from Marion (Private) Hargrove and has also bought an art film, Alberto Moravia's Two Women. As a result, some of his admirers fear that he is going to give up the drum and take up the lute. But with The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah now shooting in Morocco, Joe seems in no danger. One of his current concerns, in fact, is how to publicize that movie: Mrs. Levine, he thinks, might perhaps whip up some tasteful, monogrammed pillars of salt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Joe Unchained | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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