Word: trios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also played first base well enough to be approached by minor-league baseball teams. At 18, he opted instead to tour the vaudeville circuit, played jazz piano in small West Coast barrooms for $5 a night, later added a bassist and guitarist to form his own trio...
...singer was the unlikely appearance in 1948 of a bearded, barefoot hermit-songwriter named Eden Ahbez, who smuggled one of his songs to Cole through his valet. It was called Nature Boy, and Cole's haunting version of it became a runaway bestseller. He soon broke up his trio to charges of "artistic sellout" by the jazz critics. "Critics," countered Cole, "don't buy records. They get them free...
...titles that refer to obscure Marxist-Leninist deviationists. In one corner of his An Early Europe is pasted the source photograph of neoclassical nudes that inspired the painting's composition. He will borrow an economist's catch phrase, The Production of Waste, to title a 1963 oil showing a trio of allegorical figures chopped up like news photos of poverty, stupidity and avarice. "My pictures are a compendium of disparate imagery," he says, "mixing sweet subjects with sour ones...
Dawn was breaking as a trio of trucks and Jeeps rolled into the grounds of the Red Chinese embassy in Burundi's lakeside capital of Bujumbura. Steel-helmeted Burundi troops stood by, watching rows of Chinese stagger out of the low, grey stucco building carrying luggage and huge bundles of documents. Then Peking's Ambassador Liu Yu-feng and his wife glumly entered a black Mercedes for the trip to the airport, where an Ethiopian Airways DC-6 stood waiting. The airport porters were most emphatically ordered not to touch so much as a suitcase handle...
Wise Woman falls somewhere be tween opera and Broadway musical. Adapted from a fairy tale, it is Grimm for grownups, a Rabelaisian romp peopled with a thieving mule driver, an irascible king, a too-wise queen, and a trio of drunken tramps who keep the action crackling along at a raucous, laugh-a-minute pace. The score is uniquely Orff-primitive rhythms and simple, rustic melodies, punctuated with fanfares and percussive outbursts. Orff, 69, Germany's most famed contemporary composer, believes that "melody and speech belong together," and in his Singspiel style he strives for a marriage in which...