Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgotten opera Alcina. She and her husband are also responsible for the revival of Rossini's Semiramide, which had not been staged in the U.S. for 59 years when the couple brought it to Boston in 1965. For the sake of his principals, Bonynge embellished the score of Orfeo with newly composed "decorations for the soprano and tenor, which are part of the tradition of Haydn's time." He also transferred to his wife the lyric soprano aria of the Genius who leads Orfeo down to Hell in search of his beloved. There was good musical reason...
...Board has authorized the Office of Tests to study the impact of the present requirement on undergraduates. Students who do not score at least 560 on the College Board achievement test--about one-third of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates--must take and pass two full courses in a language to graduate from Harvard...
Musically, this lugubrious narrative is etched in a jaggedly dissonant score that takes Composer Ginastera even farther out than the twelve-tone serialism of his 1964 opera Don Rodrigo. Ginastera stacks up thick instrumental clusters, punctuates them with short, stabbing chords, sometimes uses what he calls "clouds," in which orchestra and singers improvise rhythmically suspended, ever-shifting textures. At various points in the piece, the string players clatter their bows on their instruments, the brassmen blow air tonelessly through their mouthpieces, the woodwinds bend notes into piercing quartertones. A 24-voice chorus in the pit sometimes comments on the action...
Even the players who could hit well were excellent fielders. Ken Thomas, the captain and leading hitter with a 371 average, threw out three men at the plate trying to score from second on singles. The husky leftfielder, incidentally also led the team in stolen bases and runs batted...
Last season, Sione took rugby leisurely enough to lead the varsity in scoring as a freshman. This season, he suffered a shoulder separation in the Crimson's first practice and was lost for much of the schedule. There is a gaping hole in the middle of Sione's big smile because, as he explains, "I was down two yards from the goal and someone kicked me in the teeth. I didn't score -- it really made me angry...