Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Macbetto was Baritone Jess Walters, a 32-year-old Brooklynite of modest stature but big voice. Philadelphian Florence Kirk, 27, as his indomitable Lady, prowled and strode upstage & down, drove her soprano hard, managed by sheer intensity to make Via, ti dico, o maledetta! sound as if it really were Out, damned spot...
...apart from that it possesses an immediacy of appeal and an emotional impact almost unequalled in any other modern work. Suite Lyrique, for string quartet, was for a long while the only thing of Berg's available on records. And it affected most listeners as a piece of sheer gibberish, a composer's nightmare in which the various instruments were twisted and tortured mercilessly, time after time baffling the listener's desire to discover in it any intelligible contours, whether harmonic, rhythmic, or melodic. But the Violin Concerto subdues the usually frigid and austere atonal system, and makes...
...airplane. Durrance said that he had scaled the Tower in 1936, thought he could do it again. With Paul Petzoldt, a veteran of Himalayan climbs, and five other men, Durrance and McLane inched their way up the Tower's sides, driving iron spikes ("pitons") into its hard, sheer sides to make a ladder. They reached the summit, roped little George Hopkins into the middle of their column, and carefully edged their way back down again. Safe on the ground, Hopkins drew a grateful breath, departed to collect...
...packs enough wallop in its action shots to satisfy the appetite of the most thrill-hungry customer. And when it comes to making a graphic account of the events of Europe today, scenes like the British evacuation from Dunkirk, and the night raid over Berlin tops, for sheer punch, anything that has yet been turned out on World...
...lighting, and a good measure of sweet notes from the orchestra pit. It's all there but the script; one-quarter of it plus a good script would have made a better product. But, though O'Brien dies a thousand deaths, the show will probably live on, sustained by sheer scope and variety...