Word: melodye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ozawa shrugs off criticism that he is culturally unsuited to some repertoires: "Once, as an encore after a recital in Japan, Feuermann played a Japanese tune -- pentatonic, with delicate quarter-tone shadings. Everyone said it was the best performance of that melody in history." Yet Japanese performers, educators and critics...
The preliminaries are finally over, the pipes assembled and tuned, and it is time to do some serious piping. Britton straps himself into his instrument like a fighter pilot getting ready for combat. First comes the bellows, a smaller version of the fireplace variety, belted next to his body and...
Britton begins to play, with the counter-intuitive, complicated movements that make the Uilleann pipes so damnably difficult: he presses on the bag with his left arm, periodically refilling it by pumping on the bellows with his right, occasionally hitting his regulator keys with the right wrist while simultaneously playing...
Written by freshman Harlan Page Peck in 1859, the song changed once before, adopting its current melody when it proved impossible to set the lyrics to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne." MIT
This season's first four new American musicals all closed the week they opened, continuing a daunting threeyear run of almost unrelieved financial failure for what used to be Broadway's mainstay. Staged with varying degrees of artistry, the ill-fated shows shared one disabling presumption: musicals must be "about...