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Word: songe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most stirring pieces of the evening. It began with a processional, the dancers walking slowly in white suits, dresses and pants, with white fans and huge parasols, against a backdrop of blue light. It was a scene right out of one of Winslow Homer's Caribbean watercolors. The song "Wade in the Water" was danced by three people, who crossed through the "water": two dark and light turquoise blue strips of material, rippling like waves across the stage. In this symbolic baptism, a couple was led by a third woman who brought them back and forth through the waves...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: Alvin Ailey Dazzles & Delights | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

...song was picked by the show's producers, according to J. Christopher Paul '98, the group's music director...

Author: By Alexandra S. Morrison, | Title: Opportunes Will Appear Tomorrow on 'Today' | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

Paul said he had to rearrange the song to fit it into the two-and-a-half minute time slot the group is allotted...

Author: By Alexandra S. Morrison, | Title: Opportunes Will Appear Tomorrow on 'Today' | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

Daniel A. Simon '99 will sing the solo of the song and also take part in a brief interview about Arts First...

Author: By Alexandra S. Morrison, | Title: Opportunes Will Appear Tomorrow on 'Today' | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

...songs, drawn from three of Shakespeare's plays, were set to musical arrangements composed by Shakespeare's contemporaries. The audience was thus given a chance to hear them as they might have been originally performed--something rarely done in staging of the plays themselves. Marianne Staniunas '00, Kirk G. Hanson '99 and director Wood (in various combinations) gave skillful performances of the three selections: Desdemona's "Willow Song" from Othello, Feste's "O Mistress Mine" from Twelfth Night ("Youth's a stuff will not endure") and "It Was A Lover And His Lass" (a.k.a. the "hey-nonny-no" song) from...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Wood Offers Brash Showing Of Verse on Bard's Birthday | 4/29/1997 | See Source »

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