Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impressed, Gutman proposed the score as leavening for Newport's predominantly romantic fare. It proved a charming, simple musical translation of Wilde's fable, a transparently written score for a vocal ensemble of children and grownups whose occasional peppery dissonances failed to diminish the limpid simplicity of its lyric lines. Like many of Williamson's works, it suggested the composer's varied background...
...journeyman days as Attila, The Corsair and Joan of Arc, in which the Maid dies not at the stake but on the battlefield. Later in the day, in one or another of the marble-and-crystal salons in Newport's stately mansions, the offerings included chamber and vocal music by operatic composers, excerpts from other unfamiliar 19th century operas (including the "other" La Boheme, composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo only months after Puccini's), and a program of knuckle-breaking operatic paraphrases by Franz Liszt, played by Guest Pianist Raymond Lewenthal...
...hands before uttering a line, as if about to goof it. Sandy is a constant hair pusher: in the first few minutes of Up the Down Stair case, she pushed three times. She is also an oral actress: a lip biter, tongue twitcher, mouth closer and chin wrinkler. Her vocal rhythm is a hesitation tango; her midsentence gasps leave audiences gasping...
...Wednesday, the Dennis tricks saved a so-so show-the faucetlike crying, the stumbling over lines, the vocal tremolo between laughter and tears. Reviewers were almost separated from their critical faculties. John Chapman of the Daily News closed his mash notice by pleading for Mrs. Chapman's forbearance. Walter Kerr, then of the old New York Herald Tribune, led off simply: "Let me tell you about Sandy Dennis. There should be one in every home...
...board retired to consider the offer. And once again it emerged with thumbs down. Stevenson cited doubts about the "realizable value" of the stock that L-T-V was offering, pointed again to the talks with his so far silent ally, General Dynamics. This time Allis-Chalmers had more vocal support. Obviously pulling for the home team was Thomas F. Nelson, the Wisconsin State securities division director. On the grounds that L-T-V had not registered a stock offer with his office, Nelson issued an order prohibiting L-T-V from making any more offers in the state...