Word: score
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...also as Johnson's chief engineer and evangelist of creative federalism. Last week federal men boarded one of the President's Boeing 707 jetliners, touched down in Washington State and Alaska to meet firsthand with their state counterparts. So far, the task force of better than a score of federal officials has visited 19 states. The problems they have encountered have been as diverse as America itself...
...Falmouth, Ky., 400 farmers flooded the main intersection with their milk; in Paul, Idaho, thousands of pounds* were dumped, symbolically, in front of a bank. Scores of fields in a score of states were churned into lacteal goo by the deluge, and in New Jersey-where farmers and their wives and children walked through a snowstorm to deliver their complaints to the state-house-nearly 1,000,000 Ibs. still warm from the cow, turned a Sussex County snowfield into curds...
...from tenor to baritone. That was regrettable. Though John Reardon as the son and Sherill Milnes as the lover both performed superbly, the pairing of two baritones and two sopranos robbed the vocal writing of contrast. More damaging was the fact that Levy's mildly modern score, conducted by Zubin Mehta, did not meet the challenge of the theme, too often resorted to clever percussive chattering that seemed to say "crisis coming!" Melodies meandered, the curiously opaque orchestration lagged meekly behind instead of leaping forward. Save for some rich vocal writing in a second-act quartet and the dissonant...
...Britten. As a result, the operatic version of Mourning emerges as a compelling drama with polished incidental music. Last week, after two Mourning performances, Levy was busy cutting the three-hour opera by about 20 minutes. It will take more than emergency surgery and fine stagecraft to save a score that was dead to begin with...
Instead, Karajan, who knows his way around a balance sheet as well as a musical score, plugged his festival into the free-spending electronic media. He recorded and released his version of Walküre before the festival performance, brought in a TV production firm-in which he is a major stockholder-to film the festival for worldwide distribution, and lined up more than 20 radio networks. These tie-ins enabled him to sign such top singers as Jon Vickers and Régine Crespin, and he even persuaded the Berlin senate to let the city's famed Philharmonic...