Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth movement, Bartok follows a humorous polka-like dance with a very schmaltzy singing theme played in the string section. Dr. Yannatos conducted the polka without frivolity and plunged straight into the succeeding theme...
ROBERT OSBORN-Downtown, 32 East 51st. Many artists have turned their talents to the theme of President Kennedy's assassination. Osborn is one of the few to do so successfully, mainly because he stays away from direct images of the people involved. He uses instead the themes of a violinist and a bat, a swish of red, and a tiny collage of roses, to convey a feeling of virtuosity and winged terror...
...Prime Minister expanded on his theme in a TV fireside talk from 10 Downing Street. In a Yorkshire-accented echo of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Wilson urged: "We have got to think less about what we can get out of the economy and a great deal more about what we can put into it. We need to think more about earning money and less about making...
...late Elsa Maxwell, who founded the annual charity ball in New York 13 years ago, and just to be a little different, ended up scheduling it for October. But 1,300 Manhattan socialites, who paid $150 a ticket, made it the kind of blast Elsa would have liked. The theme was Une Nuit sur la Côte d'Azur, in honor of the old girl's favorite playground, and Cannes' Whisky à GoGo discothèque was faithfully reproduced while French-born Decorations Chairwoman Jeanine Levitt looked like an ondine from the Riviera in a sapphire...
...white tights, the dancers moved across a starkly lit stage that was virtually bare of scenery. In the first movement they awaken timidly from fetal positions, groping skittishly through the anguish of birth and early life. The playfully exuberant dancing in the scherzo abruptly shifts to an anti-racist theme in the third movement, in which racially mixed couples court and embrace, reject and reconcile. In the triumphant final movement, the entire troupe joyously marches and swirls about the stage while the chorus sings "Alle Menschen werden Brüder [All men become brothers...