Word: solo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disturbs me. I cannot play with that competition!" His offending accompanist: a cricket that had taken up lodging in a nearby potted palm. After a five-minute search, workmen located the chirper, removed it so that Musician Stern, who had been mopping his brow backstage, could again return as solo soloist...
...walking none, and allowing two runs, one earned. Bernstein finished up, allowing a walk and fanning one in an inning and two thirds to give up one unearned run. The game was finally called in the last of the seventh. Bob Hastings provided the lone Crimson tally with a solo home run in the fifth...
...after hearing a flutist friend give a fine recital. Laderman returned home so "full of flute" that he sat up all night composing. As he wrote, he began to visualize dance images. Rather than lose them, he improvised dance notations above the musical staff to correspond with the flute solo. Next morning he found that the notations accurately recalled the dance images. He took the score, now titled Duet for Flute and Dancer, to Dancer-Choreographer Jean Erdman, asked that she choreograph...
...money, is written to the thesis that Audrey Hepburn is really just a dud who can happen to wear duds. It's a hard one to prove. Actress Hepburn not only looks her limpid best from first to last; she also does some snazzy dancing (she is better solo than with Astaire), and even sings effectively in a sort of absinthetic Sprechstimme with a touch of wood alcohol in the low notes...
...unrelievedly grim and anguished cerebration that the music betrays. I also question the wisdom of starting a quartet with such a lengthy duet for violin and 'cello (which almost guarantees that the flute, being cold, will enter out of tune) and of inserting such a long piano solo in the middle: both the players and the audience will feel cheated. I must single out Lawrence Lesser for his masterly handling of the 'cello part...