Word: nadia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NADIA COMANECI Bucharest...
Then you go and talk to Nadia Gould and she tells you about abortion, motherhood and adoption, and you go to Cabot and look at fetuses in the books there and walk homes to your room still not telling anyone because you know they'll think you're stupid, forgetting how many times they've worried for a few weeks about a late period and begun to think about abortion and dream about marriage and single motherhood and babies and been relieved in the end when the blood flowed again...
...other works, Thomson has dabbled in modality and flirted with serialism; like Ives, he is not above quoting a famous melody (like My Country, 'Tis of Thee) when it suits his expressive purposes. The French influence on him is strong, as befits a prize pupil of Nadia Boulanger; the opening chords of the Louisiana Story suite might have been harmonized by Ravel. But whatever the style, the music is always unmistakably Thomson's: attractively urbane, piquant, eminently civilized...
...singers will not be of their misadventures on tour or of their behavior during rehearsals, but of their art. Ask Bernie Krieger what his best times with the Glee Club have been, and he will spend most of his time talking about specific concerts--singing a Sanders concert under Nadia Boulanger, performing tudor music, music "in the halls for which it was written," singing under Bernstein for Pope Paul VI. There are other memories, of course: private conversations with members of the Czechoslovakian chorus, watching the sunrise with other Glee Club members on the North rim of the Grand Canyon...
Then bedlam. An argument broke out among the six judges. The Rumanian coach ranted. The crowd chanted Davidova's name and clapped in unison. A smaller Rumanian claque shouted "Nah-dee-yah! Nah-dee-yah!" Nadia stood motionless, arms akimbo, eyes far away. Twenty-eight minutes after her dismount, the scoreboard flashed the disheartening news: 9.85, only good enough for the silver...