Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Riding easily behind far-ranging dogs in a mellow Alabama quail meadow, the mixed gallery of millionaires in fancy dress and farmers in ripped dungarees seemed remarkably lenient. No one winced when a dog, quivering at the smell of quail, froze into a sloppy point or broke before his handler's signal...
...Thailand, Benny had left audiences stomping with excitement (and forced competing nightclubs to open late) playing mellow arrangements of such favorites as Muskrat Ramble, Honeysuckle Rose and Up a Lazy River. Swinging on into Cambodia, the band performed for 25,000 milling fans in front of King Norodom Suramarit's palace, later cut loose in a special jam session for 100 invited diplomats and Cambodian royalty held in the palace's ornate ballroom. Grateful King Suramarit decorated Benny with the Order of Chevalier de Monisaraphon...
Ives: The Unanswered Question (Zimbler Sinfonietta conducted by Lukas Foss; Unicorn). A cheerfully enigmatic work by the first U.S. modernist, Charles Ives (1874-1954). Against devout, sustained strings, a quartet of flutes and a solo trumpet superimpose progressively more insistent dissonances, but finally they retire, defeated by the mellow strings...
Some like their ballet new, lean and glinting; they favor the New York City Ballet. Some like it pageantesque, formal and applauseworthy; they favor London's Sadler's Wells. Some like it storyful, mellow and magical; they had almost no place to turn except Copenhagen, where the Royal Danish Ballet spun comfortably on its 200-year-old tradition, rarely ventured into the outside world (TIME, Aug. 31, 1953). But last week the Danes were in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, and provided crowds with something to cherish for years to come...
...company will offer the first U.S. performances of Romeo and Juliet, with the Prokofiev score and new choreography by Frederick Ashton. Then it will visit ten cities in the eastern U.S. and Canada to give more Americans a chance to see ballet storyful, mellow and magical...