Word: solo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hero Without Aim. But India is no longer the India of Forster's book. The hero of Son of the Moon is a young Hindu aristocrat-his family traces its descent from the moon-who has made the first solo flight from India to England. Vijay has acted and become a hero, idolized by his people, with limitless opportunities before...
...that the work is undramatic. With such forces at his command, Stravinsky does not fail to write a work that is extraordinarily forceful, directed, and climactic. Musically such features as brisk contrapuntal sections for the chorus, brilliant duet and solo-against-chorus writing, and a beautiful under-statement of the last words of both Oedipus and the onlookers make a performance of the work a moving and exciting occasion...
...visitors ("I just like to sing. It sounds pretty to me, that's all"). At school, where she always gets As or Bs, no one else is much impressed either. Since she tends to syncopate even her school songs, her teachers don't ask her to sing solo. But Toni doesn't care. "School songs," says she, "is corny...
Just one year earlier, though, another Winter Carnival crowd saw the fruits of over-confidence, solo assaults, and too many penalties prove almost disastrous, as the visiting Crimson came within one goal of the year's biggest upset. Easily out-classed in every department but the scoring, the migratory Chasemen lost by the slim count of 6 to 5. Keep this in mind if you take a seat at the Arena tonight, but remember also that the Crimson was thumped 16 to 4 in the other Dartmouth game last winter less than a month after the first...
...change of scene was healthy also for the Choral Society, which showed considerable improvement over its first performance some weeks ago in Sanders. Ruth Abbot's arrangements of two Kentucky folksongs, "The Water-Cresses" and Hi Ho the Preacher Man," were sung with delicacy and grace. Cynthia Sweeney's solo in the former showed confidence and excellent control of her nice soprano...