Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correction for a Critic. Lute in lap, she began with Elizabethan airs like Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home and Can She Excuse, sending the notes out soft and sweet. Then she tripped across stage to a tiny 16th Century virginal, and tinkled out two more. Before the program was over, one-woman-show Suzanne had also performed on three types of recorders, conducted a group of psalter singers and an ensemble, danced a bit and sung two of her own compositions. Wrote the New York Times's Ross Parmenter: "About the only thing...
...philosophy has been No. 1 on the undergraduate hit parade (top lecturer: the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen). But C.U.'s most famed department is speech & drama (TIME, July 7, 1947), whose professional-looking amateur theatricals have found a backstairs to Broadway for such productions as Lute Song, The Song of Bernadette and Sing Out, Sweet Land...
...roughly at a foot to a mile), the scroll follows a meandering road downriver, from dawn to dusk. In its 33-mile course, the road enters the gates of the high-walled Sung capital Pien-liang, and becomes a city street lined with pawnshops, paint shops, butcher shops, restaurants, lute shops, wineshops, needle shops, antique shops...
This week, Manhattan concertgoers heard his latest oddity-a piece called Shatokh. Against a low rich moan of the violin, the piano sounded like one of the ancient Armenian zither-and lute-like instruments (kanoon, saz) that Hovhaness likes to imitate: there was little else but pluck-like repeated notes, connected occasionally by eddying swirls of sound. Suddenly, when it was about to verge on monotony, Shatakh just ended...
...surround himself with women & children, lunches in the company of elderly ladies in waiting. His favorite dish is still lobster in brandy sauce, and he still wolfs his food. (At royal dinner parties he leaves his harassed guests time for barely one helping.) His physician, who plays the lute, declares that the King is in excellent health. Nevertheless, at 89, Gustaf...