Word: sung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apricot Orchard; in Peking. Living with 30 relatives (he supported about 50) in a rambling house, Ch'ih painted chicks, crickets, shrimp and crabs, occasionally a landscape ("Only the rich have known landscapes, but every ricksha boy knows a shrimp or a crab") in the Sung Dynasty tradition...
...side of the stage: an Italian Renaissance woman finds her dead child coming back to life, a Scottish lass sees her cow revive, and a German soldier of the Thirty Years' War exchanges his own life for that of his fallen brother. (Each of the episodes is sung in the language of its setting.) Then back to the living room. Tracy yawns, looks up at Laura and asks: "What the hell are you doing on your knees...
...accepted by his father-in-law and decked in royal robes. The score, as frothy as the libretto, played heavily on the comic effects, e.g., King Solomon's staccato outbursts, and included some melodious arias which went down like whipped cream. The moral is sung by the prophet, who is young and just getting started in the business: "Whether we prognosticate/grief or joy/for love or hate/prophets sing the will of fate...
...young at 46 to be urgently in need of one, Composer-Librettist Gian Carlo Menotti (The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street) was asked how he would phrase his own obituary. Much moved at the thought of his passing, Menotti ad-libbed a lyric that might be sung to one of his own scores: "Last night while he was having dinner, he suddenly vanished without a whimper, into thin air. A few drops of perfume fell on the table, and a heavenly choir was heard in the distance. As nothing has been heard from him since, we presume that...
...Dietrich the Oppressed), and long before Bach took it over, the choir was known throughout Europe. Bach, the 15th St. Thomas cantor, persistently complained about his teaching chores, fought a running battle with the school administration, nevertheless managed to compose enough church cantatas for one to be sung every Sunday for five years without repeating. Few St. Thomas cantors have ever made a serious stab at composing since. The post still carries great prestige (and pays handsomely: $25,000 a year...