Word: singed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dennis Crowley, back once again to sing the patter song, is another familiar face. Crowley has somewhat less to do as Major General Stanley than he did as the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, but he carries the part off with the same Gilbertian quizzicality that has marked his previous successes. His rendering of the difficult patter song is excellent, with every word--well, just about every word--clearly audible...
...with its inspired choreography (three encores worth) culminating in a kickline of sworn foes dancing arm-in-arm, is the highlight of the show. As usual in Gilbert and Sullivan, the female chorus is not as interesting, but under Seltzer's direction, the Major General's enticingly attired daughters sing and dance in neat unison...
Though it is drenched in alienation, The Woman Warrior never whines. Author Kingston avoids rhetoric for a wealth of detail-old customs and legends, the feel of Chinese enclaves transported to the California of her childhood. Even at their most poignant, her stories sing. Thousands of books have bubbled up out of the American melting pot. This should be one of those that will be remembered. Paul Gray
...Mozart and Verdi by listening each Saturday afternoon to Texaco's Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast. She was usually well prepared. The previous week, she and her sister would borrow the score of the upcoming performance from the local library and, to her sister's piano accompaniment, sing the entire opera together. Other afternoons, she often went to Boston's Fenway Park where she bought a grandstand seat in leftfield. Duffy remembers: "I was a Red Sox fan, and my first crush was on Ted Williams...
...this weekend, Collegium will perform some of the finest of the mixed choral music ever composed. The formidable ensemble will sing the young Mozart's Missa Solemnis, Sancta Maria, Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie K. 323, Qualite Primum Regnum, and Venite Populi...