Word: unison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spluttering with outrage have made Cummings a writ ers' writer and a particular idol of the young. A few years ago, when Cummings went to Bennington College in Vermont to give a reading, the entire audience of girls rose as he mounted the platform and chanted in unison one of his poems...
...arms and fingers flowing through a cascade of graceful and sophisticated gestures, all with a slight smile of incredible self-possession. The oldest was 13. The male dancers were much older. In one all-male number, 30 men sat in a circle on the floor, shaking their shoulders in unison, and began a syncopated whisper that worked up into something like a football cheer, while a clown leapt and postured in their midst. In the grand finale a benevolent dragon routed a wicked witch to the deep delight of both dancers and audience...
...Strange (Mitch Miller's Orchestra and Chorus; Columbia). A pleasant, exotic treatment played in unison by distant horns while a harpsichord tinkles like a mandolin...
...Drybutter. A woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." One little girl repeated this story to her best chum, who said: "Why! my grandmother told just the same story-with different names, of course." And the little girls looked at each other wide-eyed, and said in solemn unison: A woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." Thus was an old saying born...
...choral composer, and the extensive passages for chorus in Semele require a first-rank ensemble with clear texture and plenty of volume. The Lowell Musical Society was very fortunate to have the services of Hewitt Pantaleoni '52, an industrious, capable chorus director. The group sounded nearly perfect in unison, as well as in the tricky polyphonic sections. There was precision and grace here not always found even in professional groups...