Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concert band's finest showing of the evening came in its execution of the Symphony No. 6 for Band, Opus 86 by Vincent Persichetti. A six-minute commission turned into a four-movement symphony and the work was handled by the group with all the full-bodied color and ensemble of a regular orchestra...
...actors do the kind of work that student actors do, but since their characters don't breathe and move quite like real people, they're on their own. Glyn Vincent as Tyler often seems as confused as his character, but he has moments of real charm and passion, bringing his gawk to life. David Thomas's Lester makes it clear that his cynic had a past and is not simply sewn together of one-liners. Peter Fisher's Brad is mature, intelligent and, most difficult of all, a good Listener. Caroline Jones's Missy knows just how O'Donnell wanted...
...fire as barbecue sauce in a heat wave. Andy Borowitz is on target too, in his characterization of Lycus, a gentleman and procurer. He adds just the right dash of street hip, and being skinny with black moustache, owes more than just a nod to Groucho in his delivery. Vincent DiBenedetto, Marc Johnson and Philip Murray take their bit parts (they sing triple as Lycus's eunuchs, slaves and the soldiers of Miles Gloriosus) and polish them until they gleem...
Varsity lightweight Chris Vincent added that "the Head is the only race you have to look forward to until spring...
...That was my country-terrible winds and a wonderful emptiness." The paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949), an artist ignored by the histories of American art, now seem the obvious relay station between the crags and glaciers of the 19th century sublime and the jagged forms of Clyfford Still. To a New York audience, Tack's extraordinarily subtle paintings, which mediate between abstraction and landscape imagery, will seem almost familiar -be cause they predict and predate so much American painting of the '50s. Even the rhetoric is familiar; one finds Tack in 1920 describing a 'valley...