Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour-long CBS appearance, Borge departed from his one-man show format, which earned him an 849-performance run on Broadway, to use a 42-piece orchestra -but he used it sparingly, and mostly as a collective straight man. On his own, Borge ran the comic gamut from a musician's parody of Bach to a mimic's spoof of Liberace ("Here is an opera Mozart composed for my mother"), keeping his timing uniformly impeccable in keyboard trills, one-line gags ("We have three children-one of each"), mugging, puns, audience squelchers, zany nonsequiturs and pure slapstick...
...been a pleasure to watch the art of Sarah Jane Smith grow over the years. She has always been a fine musician, and her soprano voice has grown in size and flexibility, and lost most of its rather breathy tone-quality that was noticeable two years ago. Her considerable talents were admirably displayed at a diffuse program last night at Adams House...
Born into the Irish poetic tradition, she showed an unerring and instinctive insight into her multi-faceted material--be it mystical, earthy, whimsical, comic or nature-loving. She established herself as a superb musician in shaping her phrases and contours of spoken melody, in conveying all the subtle rhythms and inflections, in adopting the right tempos, in choosing the appropriate staccato or legato--all with the care of a Mozart specialist. Her voice is a thing of beauty to start with, and perfectly suited to the old Gaelic tongue and the several modern Irish dialects she employed (no actress...
...York is fortunate to have her for still another month, in the title roles of Saint Joan and Hamlet, before she returns to her country--a great actress, scholar and musician, and a great human being...
Carpentier's hero is a Manhattan musician, married to a successful actress. Working for radio and TV, his relations to his busy wife reduced to brief bedroom encounters on Sunday mornings, he has turned to drink and a mistress. His chance comes when a university museum sends him to a South American jungle to search for primitive musical instruments. He takes his mistress along. But, confronted with life in the raw, the girl loses her nerve along with her complexion. What had been overwhelming sex appeal in New York now becomes whining femininity, and a native woman named Rosario...