Word: solo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style and technique and in intonation. The main problem they faced was that Miss Hunter's tone was noticeably larger and stronger than either of the others'. Singing from in back of the orchestra, the men's voices sounded somewhat thin. Curiously enough, this was more apparent in the solo arias than in the ensembles, where the balance was much better. Miss Hunter performed with spirit and facility, and her singing with the chorus was particularly effective. Mr. Beveridge, the only non-professional soloist, was not in the least overshadowed, and he managed his voice skillfully throughout the two-octave...
...poet and the jazzman met in a San Francisco basement, aptly named The Cellar, to discuss a fusion of the arts. "In Now with Winter," said the poet, "we try something slow and soft. In Artifacts we want a sax solo, like the thrill is gone...
Broadway in Paris. Marcia will find that another U.S. woman painter has already been in Paris. Sylvia Carewe, the 5 ft.-tall, 43-year-old wife of Carter's Little Liver Pills Executive Marvin Small, had a solo show at the Left Bank gallery of Katia Granoff last week and received critics' salutes rarely fired off for visiting talents. She also sold ten of her 22 canvases at prices ranging from $500 to $1,500. After 14 years of painting, nine of regular showing from Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Ind. to Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
...uneven Playhouse 90 show last season, that Hollywood has wasted a first-rate actress as a B-picture harem houri. The Deaf Heart belongs to the handful of TV dramas that deserve to be repeated. Beyond that it holds added promise: it is the first solo effort on commercial TV by Chicago-born Mayo Simon, 29. He is a welcome addition to the depleted company of talented television playwrights...
Over the intricate rhythms of drums hovered the fluid notes of a single bamboo flute and the wailng chant of a solo male voice. Against a plain black backdrop swirled brilliantly costumed dancers, unfolding exotic tales of lust and vengeance, ecstasy and evil. The occasion: the Broadway opening, prior to a U.S. tour, of the Indian dance group headed by Shanta Rao (rhymes with...