Word: tippett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Symphony recently hosted guest conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Andras Schiff in music of Brahms and Beethoven. These pieces were preceded by some rather tepid Tippett, the ritual dances from The Midsummer Marriage. That music will receive no further comment, except that the reading was rather soporific from an ensemble that so prides itself on favored-stepson status with the late British composer...
...Boston Symphony recently hosted guest conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Andras Schiff in music of Brahms and Beethoven. These pieces were preceded by some rather tepid Tippett, the ritual dances from The Midsummer Marriage. That music will receive no further comment, except that the reading was rather soporific from an ensemble that so prides itself on favored-stepson status with the late British composer...
...million worth of marketing won't bring the movie, or the creatures, to life. That is the responsibility of the swamis of special effects -- the puppeteers, modelmakers and computer mavens -- working closely with enthusiastic experts. Phil Tippett, an animator and longtime dinosaur buff, would whisper admonitions after nearly every take: "The head would never move like that," or "The claw wouldn't extend that far." He was the chief enforcer of Spielberg's dictum: that the dinosaurs be animals, not monsters...
...with it the reflexive Europhilia of audiences. The new operas are eclectic, tuneful and frankly crowd pleasing. Once again, new music is where the action, and the money, is. Let the Europeans munch on the indigestible tone rows of Aribert Reimann or the pretentious obscurity of Sir Michael Tippett. Americans want something with a beat they can virtually dance to. In McTeague, they have...
Dartmouth's Jamie Boswell drew a leadoff walk in the fifth which came back to haunt Johnston when left fielder Brendan Mahoney blasted a chin-high offering that scored pinch-runner John Tippett, and landed Mahoney on third. After center fielder Joe Tosone's fly to right failed to score Mahoney from third, McKennitt got the job done with his double...