Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staged by Director Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero, the tragedy emerged a moving mixture of sound and fury, dark plots, and love destroyed by desperate ambition. The night was filled with Quintero's sound effects-the frantic music of bagpipes, thunder, the clangor of horses' hoofs, bells, and. in the sudden striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode...
...Summer music festivals usually meander through the hot weather months peacefully masticating a cud of predigested opera and alfalfa-flavored chamber music. A notable and daring exception has been New York's Empire State Music Festival, which five years ago pledged itself to new or rarely performed works. In a sprawling tent at Ellenville, N.Y., the festival presented the Eastern premiere of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum, the premiere of a ballet by Villa-Lottos, Sibelius' music for The Tempest and Strauss's Elektra, Carl Orff's score for Midsummer Night's Dream...
Diahann Carroll makes a lovely thing out of Clara. It is only unfortunate that she was not allowed to sing for herself, for her rendition of "Summertime" in her own album of the show's music is much more exciting than the dubbed version in the film...
...moderate-sized audience turned up at Sanders Theatre Monday evening for a concert of music for violin and piano, sponsored by the Summer School. The artists for the occasion were violinist Dorothy Bales and pianist Gregory Tucker...
...opening work, Scnumann's Aminor sonota, Op. 105, Miss Bales evinced a pleasant tone, but not a very large one. Consequently, she was often overpowered by the piano--a common happenstance since Schumann, a pianist himself, tended to favor his own instrument in composing his chamber music. Technically, Mr. Tucker handled his part most expertly. The over-all result, however, should have had more passionateness...