Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waverly consists of six singers and four instrumentalists. They take the stage in modified period costume, the men in loose peasant blouses, the women in simple long dresses. Their performing delightfully blends the contrasting austerity and amiability of early music. Over the drone of string tones, plangent woodwinds pipe and trill, punctuated occasionally by bells or the shiver of tambourines. The singers spin out long, pure lines, immaculate in pitch and virtually free of vibrato. There are intricate madrigals, courtly love ballads, ribald drinking songs, solemn liturgical anthems, sprightly dances. Between numbers, Director Michael Jaffee, 41, may look up from...
...spends much time reading: "The science-fiction writer had better keep up with current science and avoid dumb mistakes, or the other writers really let you know about it." She now attends fewer science-fiction conclaves and conventions than she once did, and has given up the pipe smoking that made her stand out in the crowds...