Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In his performances, Levine strives to banish interpretive routine to get at the heart of the composer's message. "My function," he says, "is to be a necessary middleman, not a willful, distorting, idiosyncratic, egocentric middleman." His high performance standards are derived from three major influences: Toscanini, Soprano Maria...
Jimmy's love for the piano was intense, but he soon discovered an even greater love: opera. Jimmy would listen to recordings, singing the parts and conducting from the score. His mother, who had been a Broadway actress, bought him a miniature stage, where he put on his own...
Before there was a "good ol' Mare" on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, even before her role as Laura Petrie on the Dick Van Dyke Show, there were the legs. They were the shapely stems seen in the old TV detective chestnut Richard Diamond, and they were the props...
Throughout her programmed "walk" at the Wright State biomedical engineering lab, Davis was bolstered by props. She was strapped to a parachute harness that supported a third of her 130 Ibs., and she gripped a pair of parallel bars as her legs stepped ahead of her down the 10-ft...
Although the script calls for a chorus of ignorant, bumbling natives, one doubts either Gilbert or Sullivan had scantily-clad, partying savages in mind. The entire chorus seems a bit disorganized; its members focus too much on their props--assorted alcoholic beverages and pipes--rather than the precision of their...