Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christoph Pepusch's original music barely recognizable. As the townswomen trooped onstage, Britten represented each with a different solo instrument-chilling woodwinds, a whining oboe, a trumpet or cymbals. Smack in the middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances as a C sharp and C natural grinding together; at other times, to an orchestral accompaniment...
...Minor! C Minor!" When he got home again, in 1930, he found himself famous. As time went by he took to stuffing his pockets with costly cigars, developed a taste for conservative grey suits, manicures and perfume. In 1932 he was made director of musical education for Rio's schools...
...soon learned what it was like to have Villa-Lobos around. Symphony orchestras found him a ranting, swearing conductor, who at times seemed barely able to follow a score ("C minor! C minor!" he would scream-then, quietly, "It is C minor, isn't it?"). Once during his class at the Rio Conservatory, a girl fainted. Next day Villa-Lobos posted a sign-and students knew he meant it: "Fainting in class not allowed...
...money is on hand. If the show is to be continued, an extra 3% will be asked in the Every-Member-Canvass pledges for 1949. The program will cost about $15,000 a week, over $11,000 of it for radio time at regular commercial rates. Musicians, technicians and minor actors will receive regular rates; the stars have volunteered for a fraction of their usual fees...
...injuries have been suffered during pre-season practice. There have been plenty of minor bumps and bruises, but the only real "cripple" at present is end Jerry Bahn, who broke his hand last week...