Word: tente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often tapestries, commissioned to show the exploits of a brave and royal person, were rolled up. carried into battle to decorate his tent. Later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, taste turned more and more to fixed wall decoration-marble, gilded woodwork, monumental paintings -and tapestry began to take a second place. Ironically, just as great technical advances were being made in the art of weaving, the spirit of originality began to disappear, and tapestry largely became a slavish imitation of paintings-often complete with their own ornate "gold" frames woven around their borders. With the exception...
Cafe Contributors. The concours that ended last week was, by critical consensus, Kerkrade's best. As many as 21 bands paraded simultaneously in the town's big stadium, pumping away together at 21 different tunes. In the enormous (3,500-seat) tent erected for the occasion, the bands played weekends-from early afternoon until early the next morning. Among those present: 40 emotional Italians of the Corpo Musicale del Dopolavoro Fer-roviario of Milan who nearly blasted the $40,000 tent to pieces with Cam Amati, a musical description of attacking Italian tanks in World War II; three...
...lush sound he gets out of his orchestra. At North Shore, the orchestra is located in a box-like enclosure that funnels out into the theatre, and this fact may account for the volume and fullness of the music. In any case, the orchestra, unlike other music tent orchestras, gave the allusion of being very large and thus being. Especially capable of conveying the power of Coward's music, which in the case of Bittersweet demands a powerful sound...
...romanticism of the part as it is portrayed by Miss Elias secures its effect. The luscious music comes through powerfully and straightforwardly. The many musical lessons Miss Elias has learned in her relatively short but very distinguished career at the Metropolitan serve her well in the music tent. Her top notes are secure, and the dark, lower tones of her voice emphasize the deeply emotional power of such standards as "I'll See You Again" and "Zigeuner." To be brief, Miss Elias is herself the motive power behind the success of the musical...
...this August Among the white silks puffed by wind, The garden music shrunk by the outdoor distances, The nylon tent in which tiny sandwiches are served, Wed imagine the fat man Reflected in those dark mirrors upside down...