Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Schonberg, Variations for Orchestra; Rust, Viola sonata; Moussorgsky, Sorochintsy Fair; Gabrieli, Canzone; Potter, Variations on a popular tune; Mendelssohn, Piano trio...
...mature Gertrudian bosom," as Van Wyck Brooks put it, "much like that of their far away prairie mothers, but of a most gratifying sophistication. Miss Stein gave them back their nursery rhymes and they had fine babbling times together." As for for own writing, apart from a trio of impressive short stories, Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and the moving play-opera Four Saints in Three Acts, Gertrude Stein was not so much the hoaxer as the hoaxed. She tried to purify words by divorcing them from meanings and using them as pigments or notes. At best...
...TROUBLE IN TAHITI. Leonard Bernstein's opera performed by the TV Opera Workshop, under the auspices of the New England Conservatory of Music. Staged and conducted by John Moriarty. Cast: Dinah--Corinne Curry; Sam--Jack Davison; The Trio--Geraldine Barredto, William Conlon, and Lucien Oliver...
Chet Boulris, who had a field day at Penn, Bruce MacIntyre, who also looked good last Saturday, and Charlie Ravenel, who has shown talented signal calling in every game this season, will be the trio that will make or break the all-important varsity offense...
...conception goes a looseness of treatment, as much sprawl as size. As Shaw's characters explain themselves and react on one another in an evening-long, often brilliant conversation piece, something veers toward tragedy, something else explodes into farce, a philosophic aria gives way to a dialectical trio, fireworks light up the scene, flummery disfigures it. Heartbreak House is quite marvelous in bits and pieces, but too miscellaneous and uneven as a whole. In the long final scene, where the immemorial charm of the English countryside is charged with the tensions of an approaching air raid, Shaw achieves...