Word: singspiel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep the action crackling along at a raucous, laugh-a-minute pace. The score is uniquely Orff-primitive rhythms and simple, rustic melodies, punctuated with fanfares and percussive outbursts. Orff, 69, Germany's most famed contemporary composer, believes that "melody and speech belong together," and in his Singspiel style he strives for a marriage in which neither dominates the other. Above all, his Wise Woman is what many operas are not-good theater...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). "An Omnibus of American Songs," with Edie Adams, Myron McCormick and Robert Goulet leading the sociological singspiel...
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