Word: waltz
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...Band, a seminal group that played like road warriors and sang songs that seemed to come from some new national folklore, timeless music conjuring a time that never was. He has been away eleven years now, ever since he organized rock's greatest farewell concert, 1976's The Last Waltz, during which he and the Band brought together "different spokes in the wheel of our music" -- Bob Dylan to Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell to Muddy Waters -- and saw themselves off into the history books in princely fashion...
Visitors enjoyed complementary brownies from Harvard Dining Services to waltz music from the Harvard University Audio Visual Services display...
Adams House dining hall served as a multipurpose indoor arena last week, becoming a ballroom and night club in a matter of eight days. Last Saturday, groups of sophisticated students danced away the night in the house's annual waltz. Then, this Saturday, a less elevated audience, including a group of slam dancers, rocked to the beat of three hard core bands...
...mangroves of Marco Island an insect combo embellished the Spiro sound with a contrapuntal hum. It was all bloody romantic, and when a paddle-wheeler, the latest O'Shea expansion, came to berth with 100 or so diners aboard, they simply fell to working off their meals aerobically: a waltz to warm up, a jitterbug for the cardiovascular good, a waltz to cool down. "I never cared for any other kind of music," said a woman of some years named Barbara Rudolph, "and I never had a husband who did either." Just then she was dipped by Myron Perlstine...
Musically, the performance is just as diffident. No matter how often heard, the melodic freshets and torrents of Strauss's score should always flow, but under Conductor Jeffrey Tate's charmless time beating, even the famous waltz proves resistible. Te Kanawa displays her shimmering voice to some advantage in the first act, then fades away. As the bubbly chambermaid Adele, Soprano Judith Blegen is unsure of pitch and unsteady of tone, while Baritone Hakan Hagegard inappropriately plays Eisenstein as a staggering buffoon...