Word: trios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failures in spite of generally good performances and the direction of Peter Wood. The Private Ear fails because it is a blatantly uninteresting and unfunny play. The Public Eye fails, though less completely, because it bungles its chance to exploit an amusing situation and a potentially fascinating trio of characters...
...Anglo-French committee of government transport experts endorsed a plan to connect Dover and Calais by means of a 32-mile, $407 million railroad tunnel. The committee found either of two approaches feasible: a brace of segmented "immersed tubes" that would run across the channel floor, or a trio of cross-connected tunnels bored through the soft lower chalk layer 160 feet beneath the bottom...
Rare Peek. Some complaints persist, though, and some are legitimate. The overseas jazz audience could support far more than one group a year, and the program has yet to choose a modern jazz trio or quartet that would interest aficionados educated by the Voice of America's excellent jazz program. The only opera company that has ever been sent abroad is the Santa Fe Opera, which was triumphant in Berlin and Belgrade two years ago with Douglas Moore's Ballad of Baby Doe-a rare and rewarding peek at the best of American opera...
...Aureole, the dancers are all in white, stark against a backdrop lighting of limpid Mediterranean blue. Taylor, a blond, blue-eyed matinee idol, looks as if he could double as a circus strongman, and the trio of girls accompanying him are Nereids in semidiaphanous slips. The dancers move like sails on a summer sea, now lazing, now racing, sometimes capsizing, then righting themselves as they catch each new breeze of improvisation. There is no story line whatever, but the mood is as artless as love...
...soloists, who were often embarrassing, presented another set of problems. Counter tenor Donald Parsons was the worst detractor, and bass Donald Langmuir, though not prone to missing notes like Parsons, lacked power and richness. Greer McLane, the mezzo soprano, was the best of the trio, if rather uninspired...