Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Susan's tune promptly became Minuet of the Shrimp, one of 300 tunes, poems, dances submitted by 60 sixth-grade pupils of Cincinnati's suburban North Avondale Public School for inclusion in a group cantata, a sweeping experiment at musical education. Last week they had the thrill of performing their work with a professional symphony orchestra. The project began a year ago, when the Cincinnati Symphony played at one of its popular children's concerts a cantata called Moon Rocket, a musical trip to the moon composed by Dorothy Fee, a New Jersey kindergarten music teacher...
...second disappointment was the all-American cast. For once, the Met stage was peopled by young, handsome, slender performers. But their Juilliard-type excellence somehow did not thrill. Baritone Theodor Uppman tried hardest and succeeded best as Papageno, the comical birdman; partly thanks to Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while...
...cleverer throwing monkey wrenches into it. What with the wrong person turning up at the right moment, or the right person at the wrong one, or somebody showing funk or something important disappearing, there is endless gang-aft-agleying, and Someone Waiting seems more an obstacle race than a thrill er. Never believable, in time it becomes something of a bore, and though Leo G. Carroll plays the father with his usual deftness, it is on the audience that he really seems to be taking revenge...
...Jekyll came to Central Square last Friday night, after a triumphant tour of Codman Square, Watertown, and Chelsea theatres. Posters urging, "Shudder! Thrill! See this crazy mixed-up horror show! Grab girls in the audience!" had attracted a full house of ghost lovers...
...news stories to conclusion several years ago [Dec. 19] provokes one Lahey admirer to remember how he began one. On the day Richard Loeb was killed in Joliet Prison, 111. by a fellow inmate to whom he had ma.de an indecent proposal, Lahey began his story approximately thus: "Thrill-killer Loeb, for all his fine college education, today ended his sentence with a proposition...