Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even the solo performances took on the glamour of major production. New York's ex-Governor Averell Harriman and Eleanor Roosevelt, both Khrushchev's guests in Russia who doubtless had said politely, "Come and see me if you're ever in America," found themselves with protocol-sized problems-Harriman with a reception in his Manhattan apartment, Mrs. R. with a tour of the F.D.R. home at Hyde Park. Khrush's favorite U.S. farmer, Roswell Garst of Coon Rapids, Iowa, placated photographers by trying on a coat given him by Khrushchev in Moscow last March, finally decided...
...M.I.T. Summer School sponsored Barry Morse in Merely Players, a "one-man theatrical scrapbook." Morse described his show as "a light-hearted look at the actor and his life, his ups and downs, troubles and triumphs--in fact and fiction, in various periods and places." Knowledgeable chatting alternated with solo excerpts.MIKEL LAMBERT '59 and EARLE EDGERTON '56 starred in "The Man Who Came to Dinner...
...mild-mannered Virginian named Charlie Byrd started strumming the strings of his guitar. With bass and drum accompaniment, he played his own composition, Spanish Guitar Blues, went on to a hot-swinging number called Yoti Took Advantage of Me, and then pulled a 180° switch-two solo Bach gavottes, sedate Frescobaldi variations, Villa-Lobos' rolling Prelude in E Minor. At 33, Byrd is that rarity, a musician so versatile that he qualifies as one of the world's top classical and jazz guitarists...
Salzedo turned to the harp itself, transformed its physical aspect by replacing the fussy gold with businesslike polished maple. Salzedo then experimented with compositions for the harp, made it into a versatile solo instrument. Says Modernist Composer Edgar Varese: "Carlos is an innovator, an adventurer. He has succeeded in changing the sex of the harp -minimizing its golden aura of Victorian femininity; he has discovered and explored its virility...
Corelli: Concerti Grossi Opus 6 (Chamber Orchestra of the Societas Musica, directed by Jorgen Ernst Hansen; Vanguard, 3 LPs). An expert in the concerto-grosso form (where a group of solo instruments maintains a dialogue with an orchestral ensemble), Corelli was also the first to relax the strict contrapuntal style of his era, is shown in this recording to have mastered the full scope of string sonorities by making violins sound like a full-voiced choir...