Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHITSUNDAY SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). An original oratorio, Galileo, has been commissioned to commemorate the appearance of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles on this seventh Sunday after Easter. Libretto by Joe Darion, score by Ezra Laderman, and featuring Basso Ara Berberian as the troubled astronomer...
...phrases reminiscent of World War II movies, North Vietnamese pilots began shouting "You die, Yankee dog!" over their radios as they closed with U.S. planes. It did not do much good. The dogfight score to date: 49 kills for the U.S. v. 17 for the North Vietnamese...
While some of the soloists moved about the stage as if they were acting, others executed their parts straight-forwardly from stand or hand-held score. The production never decided what it was going to be. As a result the audience never knew if it was supposed to be caught up in the drama of the thing or appreciating the work for its pure musical value. The awkward silence preceeding the applause after each number was a telling sign of the audience's confusion...
...whole, however, the forces assembled at Sanders had to cope with so much music of such weight and difficulty that they had little chance to do anything with their parts but get through them. Much of the performance was simply dutiful and at times even boring. Beethoven's exquisite score certainly deserves more than that--that is, more than even the best undergraduate musicians are capable of giving it under the circumstances of extracurricular music at Harvard...
...steal downfield and some great dodging inside by Keith Hutchinson accounted for the final score of the third period, and put the Crimson in front for the first time...