Word: performances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Love" at the rock and roll show? For that matter, how did the "Chesterfields" get signed up to do the show? There is some intimation that Freed means to do this for them; it is clear he likes them, but the scene in which they are told they will perform is missing...
...were set back by the worst winter he has ever seen, but he figures that they will rise with the temperatures. Murphy's uncannily accurate forecasting record in the past couple of years would make a bookie tremble. If he is right this time, the whole economy will perform much better than orthodox seers predict...
While in Florida on Tuesday, the team will play Sawgrass, the site of last weekend's Tournament of Players Championship won by Jack Nicklaus. The golfer playing Sawgrass sees his ball perform like a marshmallow in a wind tunnel; as even Nicklaus did not record a birdie while winning the tourney with a final round...
...Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll, which, in its tranquillity and relative simplicity, contrasts sharply with the stereotype of Wagnerian heaviness and turmoil. Unlike his operas, it is modestly scored, an intimate love poem which Wagner never meant to have published. It is, in addition, an immensely difficult piece to perform--the orchestra is required to evoke a tranquil, exalted atmosphere, and then maintain this mood through twenty minutes of technically exacting music...
Unfortunately, Wilkins and the Bach Society did not entirely succeed in the difficult task they set for themselves. The strings again played sweetly, particularly in the quiet opening and closing sections, and the solo wind passages were impeccably performed. But too often the idyllic atmosphere of the music was disrupted by unnecessary heaviness in the lower instruments, and Wilkins's cautious, fastidious approach to the work detracted from its Wagnerian sweep and passion. Hence, although the performance was as precise as one could wish, it might have been more inspiring. As an ambitious attempt to perform a very difficult work...