Word: violas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive-in theaters owned by her parents. A native of Indiana, she was named after a Midwestern pig-calling contestant known as Twila. "My mother thought Twyla would look good on a theater marquee," explains Tharp. Her ambitious mother also laid out a marathon course of piano, violin, viola, drum, baton-twirling, ballet and tap-dancing lessons that occupied Tharp's childhood. It all paid...
...Concord String Quartet (courtesy of the Fromm Music Foundation) presents A Program of Contemporary Music with Scott Nickrenz, viola, as guest artist. Sanders Theater, 8:30 p.m. Free...
...play is as implausible as ever, but rarely has it been given a production of such marvelously sustained enchantment. Duke Orsino (Stephen Macht) is bewitched by the lovely Countess Olivia (Marti Maraden). She, in turn, falls madly in love with Cesario, who is really the shipwrecked Viola (Kathleen Widdoes) in male disguise. Before the plot is piloted to safe harbor, there are mistaken identities to be resolved, twin brother and sister to be reunited, true love's partners to be mated, and the lowbrow comic shenanigans of that Tweedledum-Tweedledee pair Sir Toby Belch (Leslie Yeo) and Sir Andrew...
Richardson can accept the experience of meeting a new person only by pretending his guest is someone he al ready knows, a fellow whose wife he once proudly seduced. Gielgud humors him with a sly expression of disbelief; his viola voice emerges to play, tease, and finally wound in a fumbled attempt at old-boy friendship. Richardson, ever the literary prig, rejects him: "Let us change the subject. For the last time." He commits his soul to his servants, two North London roughnecks with a sheen of airline-steward manners, and slides willingly into no man's land, "which...
...first piece they have played this year that was composed by their namesake. Bach, in his Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, abandoned his usual use of a group of a solo instruments against an orchestral background. Originally intended for chamber performance, the third concerto calls for three violins, three violas, and three cellos, each group acting as a unit. The string orchestra that played last Saturday was heavily weighted against the viola section, both in numbers and in ability. The thread of the music continually got lost; whenever the ball was passed to the violas, they dropped it. The orchestra continued...