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...lyrical score admirably suited to the moods of the text. One of its high points was a rhapsodic duet between the heroine, expertly portrayed by Soprano Judith Raskin, and the officer ("No rival heart/ No rival wife/ Will come/ Between our flesh/ Our love"). Other standouts: a triumphant final sextet celebrating the "lesson of love," and the heroine's sprightly address to a mirror to variations of Come, Come, Ye Saints. The opera's weakness is its sameness of tone, its tendency to pile layer upon layer of melody, its failure to etch a real musical profile. Deseret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Romantic Modernist | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Jerry Jorgenson's goal in sudden-death overtime gave the Crimson a 2-1 victory over the undefeated Boston College hockey team last Monday night. The victory was the sextet's fifth, against three losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jorgenson's Goal Stops B.C., 2-1; Sextet Bows in R.P.I. Tournament | 1/5/1961 | See Source »

Both team's defenses were sharp all night; Logue had only 18 saves, Bland 17. Coach Cooney Welland started the contest with an offense shake-up that featured Jorgenson, a sophomore, in the fore. The change paid off with each of the sextet's important tallies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jorgenson's Goal Stops B.C., 2-1; Sextet Bows in R.P.I. Tournament | 1/5/1961 | See Source »

...halfway talents and halfway nudes. A fanfare brings out the girls-girls dressed in balloons, girls dressed in sequins, girls in high heels clicking along the stage rim, nearly stepping on the ring-siders' elbows. After the updated burlesque comedians, the rubber-legged clown, the croaky grand-opera sextet, the long evening ends with a flourish-figure skaters on a rink the size of the late Serge Rubinstein's bed. Like New York night life itself, all this looks better from a distance. From the back of the huge room, the show seems gay and sexy, but when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: The Birds Go There | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...Crimson opens the tournament in Troy, N.Y., with probably its toughest opponent of the three-day round-robin, R.P.I. and the varsity face off Wednesday night in a game that should prove the sextet's strength among the top Eastern teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet to Compete In R.P.I. Tourney | 12/21/1960 | See Source »

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