Word: trill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand, the audience lifts off too, out the window of the Opera House, above the sun-dappled boats lying at anchor in Rockport harbor, beyond time, beyond space. Somewhere off in a primeval woods everybody's inner ear hears a sneaky, undeserving little hitchhiker of a thrush trill the loveliest of songs...
...consists of six singers and four instrumentalists. They take the stage in modified period costume, the men in loose peasant blouses, the women in simple long dresses. Their performing delightfully blends the contrasting austerity and amiability of early music. Over the drone of string tones, plangent woodwinds pipe and trill, punctuated occasionally by bells or the shiver of tambourines. The singers spin out long, pure lines, immaculate in pitch and virtually free of vibrato. There are intricate madrigals, courtly love ballads, ribald drinking songs, solemn liturgical anthems, sprightly dances. Between numbers, Director Michael Jaffee, 41, may look up from...