Word: score
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...headstrong young king and, after he has had the bad taste to violate and jilt the daughter of a comrade in arms, his subsequent fall. The performance, honed by five weeks of 13-hour-a-day rehearsals, was excellent. The starkly stylized sets and costumes complemented the jaggedly atonal score; the acting and singing were superb...
Complex Tapestry. Yet as opera, Don Rodrigo was something less than a torrid success. Ginastera's score, based on a twelve-tone scale and structured after the manner of Alban Berg's groundbreaking 1921 masterwork, Wozzeck, struck the ear but not the heart. It was a complex musical tapestry, flecked with startled tones of brass and wood wind and splotched with splashes of percussion. In total, the score failed to achieve the delineation of character and dramatic thrust that distinguish great opera from good. Don Rodrigo was nonetheless an adventure worthy of the underwriting (by Mrs. John...
Sedlacek's late season outburst, raising his total to 533 for the year, made him the first Harvard player in history to score more than 500 points in a single season. That's an average of 22.4 per game and another Harvard record...
...rest of the first period passed by dully, but when the second session opened Harvard reasserted its intention of winning with an even quicker score...
Harvard tied the score on a goal by Johnson which should never have been allowed. Everyone in the rink except the the referee saw that Johnson's shot had bounced off the body of Pete Mueller, but the B.U. complaints came to naught...