Word: minueting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn, exhibited his thrusts and parries to newsmen at a local fencing school, where he was practicing. At a chance meeting in a TV studio, brutal words were exchanged. Cried Lifar: "I feel sorry for you; you can hardly see. But I'll make you dance a minuet to my épée." Replied Cuevas: "Your handkerchief was so starched it could almost have drawn blood...
...rococo grandeur of an 18th century pleasure park. For scenery and costumes, Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian borrowed brilliantly from the delicate woodland scenes of Watteau and Fragonard, gave the NBC color cameras an enchanting palette of shimmering pastels. Through a dream world as mannered as a minuet glided fauns, harlequins and unicorns, dwarf attendants and monkey footmen. Olivia (Frances Hyland) wooed the disguised Viola (radiantly played by Rosemary Harris) while floating in an elegant barge. When Malvolio (Maurice Evans) puffed with pride over the forged love letter from his mistress, he stepped into a decorated balloon and soared straight...
...regard "politicians" as "a pretty dirty word," Truman responded, "A politician is a man who understands government, and it's the most honorable profession in the world." Inevitably the group came to another piano, a replica of the one in the White House. Truman tinkled out the Paderewski minuet and, for an encore, bravely riddled a Mozart theme with clinkers. Then, after a closing speech ("Learn all you can about the Government so you can continue this great republic of ours"), the Missouri Waltz welled up and Truman scurried downstairs to the basement control room to get the verdict...
...said to myself, 'Why. that sounds like a shrimp.'" Twelve-year-old Susan's tune promptly became Minuet of the Shrimp, one of 300 tunes, poems, dances submitted by 60 sixth-grade pupils of Cincinnati's suburban North Avondale Public School for inclusion in a group cantata, a sweeping experiment at musical education. Last week they had the thrill of performing their work with a professional symphony orchestra. The project began a year ago, when the Cincinnati Symphony played at one of its popular children's concerts a cantata called Moon Rocket, a musical trip...
Edited by Conductor Johnson and Music Teacher Perso. Secrets was scaled down to a trim 23 minutes, highlighted by The Ballad of Mort, the Whale, Lobster Dante, Ballet of the Octopus and Sea Horse Gallop, a tap dance in 6/8 time, as well as Susan Freiberg's Minuet of the Shrimp. The local critics disdained to cover the premiere, but Conductor Johnson thought Sea Secrets good enough to be shown to a music publisher. Said he: "It is beautiful in its whimsicality...