Word: uncoiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trick for a soprano in Adriana is to seize the stage before the tenor has a chance to plant himself with arms thrown wide to uncoil one of the soaring rhapsodies that billow through the length of the opera. The trick is particularly tough when the tenor is as talented a scene stealer as Franco Corelli, but Tebaldi handled the job nicely. When she came on in Act I in an ivory gown and red hair, she looked so startlingly unlike the matronly Tebaldi of other years that even her devoted claque paused in surprise for the space...
When 300 pickets tried to close down a nonunion mine in Hazard, state troopers were armed with submachine guns. The United Mine Workers disowned the roving pickets, urged everybody to calm down. That was like pleading with a rattlesnake to uncoil. The violence sim ply increased, and Kentucky's Democratic Governor Bert Combs admitted that a "dangerous situation" existed. It was likely to get worse before it got better...
...between Cliburn bravura and Gould introspection. The B-Flat Concerto was ideally suited to Browning's talent. A witty virtuoso piece, it gave him a chance to display his brilliant technique, particularly in a rippling right hand. But there were also the long lyric lines that seemed to uncoil effortlessly from Browning's piano, the remarkably transparent but sonorous tone...