Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enters the enemy's lair, all the master's usual, unequaled scenes are on display: the minuet between expert interrogator and expert evader; the battles in London between men of principle and Old Etonian Iagos; the appearance of a beautiful woman who offers a way out of the spy's maze of mirrors. Without raising a sweat, Le Carre propels us from Cairo penthouses to Cornwall pubs, from Quebecois mining towns to secret islands in the Bahamas, from Miami to London to Panama, all of them evoked with an insider's authority...
Handel's "Water Music" continued the string of brilliant performances. Professional polish and good timing characterized the famous "Hornpipe," "Bouree" and "Minuet" sections, and the orchestra sustained its trills without fading. The strings and winds maintained a sublime rapport in the concluding "Allegro" and "Gigues...
...circus pioneer Philip Astley joined the family business. At age 10, John could dance a minuet on three horses and so impressed Marie Antoinette that she presented him with a gold medallion. Lord George Sander, who gave himself the title and was Great Britain's equivalent of P. T. Barnum, was also born into a circus family...
...take up arms against those troubles that are both particularly evil and particularly threatening to us. And we husband our resources to meet those troubles. That will occasionally mean having to * recruit others to help and having to make moral compromises to keep that help. Hence our long minuet with the Soviets over the Baltics...
Leppard's lively performance of the "Haffner," with a scaled-down orchestra assembled from the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard School Orchestra, was peculiar because it broke off after the minuet. Then came two piano concertos, two piano solos, a serenade and four individual arias (all admirably performed by such soloists as pianist Jeffrey Kahane and soprano Dawn Upshaw) before the "Haffner" finale arrived as a kind of farewell...