Word: pelle
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...league, blasting the Deacons 5-0. Charles Foster, Eliot Hawkins, Landon Thomas, Bob Albert, and Roger La Viale each picked up wins. In the "B" league, they topped the Deacons, 3-2, with wins by John Austin, Dick Almy, and Mike Meier. Winning Deacons were John Sands and John Pell...
...sunless castle by a timeless sea, the story went, lived a young prince named Pelléas. He was as innocent and guileless as Mélisande, the bride of his half brother. In a helpless, fateful series of encounters, their destinies became tangled until, on a moonlit night, he became literally entangled in her long hair as she combed it down from her tower window. And just when they fully realized their love, her husband came upon them and ran his sword through Pell...
...took Debussy ten years to finish his score. Then, in 1902, it had its first performance, and it made Debussy's reputation. Too delicate to qualify as operatic roast beef, Pelléas easily won a place in the repertory as a savory for connoisseurs. As such, last week, it was served up at Manhattan's Met after an absence of four seasons. It was the Met's best performance of the season...
...orchestra sweeps along in the major role. Unlike Wagner's characters, Debussy's do not bemoan their fates; they simply submit to them. Nor is there any Wagnerian bellowing. Where Tristan shouts "Isolde! Geliebte!" at the top of his lungs, with the orchestra going full out, Pelléas whispers "Je t'aime...
...made the Metropolitan orchestra sound like the first-rate instrument it can be, blending Debussy's music in a luxurious veil of sound, building subtly from the elusive sighings of the first scenes to the full-blooded climax near the end. Onstage, Baritone Theodor Uppman sang and acted Pelléas asif he believed him. Baritone Martial Singher (as the half brother), Basso Jerome Hines (as the half-blind grandfather) and Martha Lipton (as Pelléas' mother) all sang like fine anti-Wagnerians. And though the delicate voice of Soprano Nadine Conner (Mélisande) sometimes seemed...