Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most exciting match of the afternoon, Jeff Hall of Eliot defeated Fred Connell of Lowell in the 160-pound division. The score was a tight 3-2. I'hil Hway (145 lb.) of Eliot helped out his house with an easy victory of 10-4 over J. A. Garlow of Lowell...
...also irksome. A few examples: Dr. Moles says the range of loudness in music is from 30 decibels to 100 decibels. On the next line he says Stokowski performed triple pianissimo at 20 decibels; was that not music? In Chapter 1, from concocted statistics about a "typical" musical score, he calculates the redundancy of certain aspects of musical notation to be 15 percent. In the rest of the book he refers to the great redundancy of the musical score in comparison with the slight redundancy, perhaps 20 percent, of musical performances. He should have rigged his example to support...
...tenor (José Maria Perez). The libretto deals with Attila's siege of Italy in the 5th century and is embellished with the usual subplots of revenge, lust and political hanky-panky. What makes the opera worth the salvaging is the vigor and sheer melodic beauty of the score. Though Verdi the patriot worked at odds with Verdi the composer, the fervor of his convictions could occasionally inspire him as well. The opening aria "Let us be free," for example, is charged with the kind of youthful brio that was to come to full flower in Rigoletto, written five...
...buster's daughter in the 1900s who had "seen the settler-cattlemen fights" and been wounded twice herself. In later years, she was forever "tearing around on horseback and climbing the Pecos," digging behind legends of Indian wars, gamblers and lawmen for the tales she wove into a score of chronicles (Old Jules, Slogum House) whose gritty realism never dulled her own feeling for the Plains, to which she returned every spring, "when I see a mare's-tail sky and I get so homesick for Nebraska it hurts...
Tuesday night, Leverett rallied past Eliot and won the sabre competition by a score of ten points to the Elephant's five. Kenneth Russell, Leverett's strong man, slid ahead of Eliot's Louis Hinman for first place. In the final rounds of the foil competition, the situation reversed with Hinman taking the honors and Russell placing second...