Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went with a friend who loves classical ballet. Reading the program note for the second dance "Locus"--"The score for 'Locus' is a random ordering of 27 points on a cube of space immediately surrounding the standing figure"--she moaned, "It sounds awfully theoretical." But an awareness of the theoretical nuances of avant-garde dance is an initiation to familiarity with the academic language of classical ballet. The initiation makes you an insider, one party to a compact between artist and viewer. Once you're familiar with the compact, you can appreciate the dance as dance...
...50th anniversary of a high note, Andres Segovia's first U.S. tour, and, as part of the celebration, the classical guitarist played before a sellout audience of 3,200 at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium. "This guitar refuses to stay in tune," he complained, and later he apologized: "Tonight my guitar was not my sweetheart. It was my enemy." Segovia, 84, lives in Madrid where he is working on his four-volume autobiography. which he likes to think of as four movements of a sonata...
...Harvard, the tournament started off on a positive note with a Saturday night victory over Pennsylvania, 73-65. Sophomore center Leslie Greis replayed her performance against Penn in the 1977 Ivy League Tournament as she pumped in 26 points to lead the Crimson offerise...
Almost in the fashion of a disclaimer, Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe begins on an appropriately self-parodying note. The stentorian voice-over--a Python staple--introduces the film by touting the ensuing movie as an historic encounter in the annals of entertainment, accompanied by strains of Pomp and Circumstance in the background. After seeing the various members of the two comedy groups frolic about in the London streets outside of Her Majesty's Theatre for a few minutes, the movie cuts to the famous Monty Python dead parrot skit. This sequence reveals the fundamental problem with the movie...
...what they were doing. Towards the end of Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe, an emcee walks onto the stage to deliver a few announcements and reflect on the performance. After thanking the London audience for "working so hard at enjoying tonight's entertainment," the emcee goes on to note, "I know how tempting it is to say, 'Let somebody else go out and get entertained."' Be forewarned, moviegoers; there's nothing wrong with giving in to that temptation every once in a while...