Word: harped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winning tribute to a major figure in British music. Just before his death at his villa on the Italian island of Ischia (the inspiration for Hockney's set), Walton had put the finishing touches to his score. The music is carefully crafted and sparklingly orchestrated with sprinkles of harp, celesta and xylophone-qualities that are reflected in Sir Frederick's deft choreography. Like his great colleague George Balanchine, Ashton has an unerring ability to match movement with sound in a way that slights neither, creating something fresh and whole to charm the eye and resonate in the soul...
Hoisting high their glasses of Harp Lager, Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill hailed St. Patrick's Day at a luncheon in the Speaker's lair on Capitol Hill. But the tableau of bipartisan spirits, which reflected the compromises that have been attained so far on Social Security and a $5 billion jobs program, may be the last symbolic display of unity for a while. Beneath the blarney was brewing what could turn out to be a bloody partisan battle. After the lunch was over, the House Budget Committee passed a plan designed by the Democratic leadership...
DIED. Mildred Dilling, 88, virtuoso and zestful champion of the harp, who helped to popularize solo recitals on the instrument; in New York City. Casting herself as a wandering troubadour, Dilling toured constantly, playing seven times at the White House and once giving 17 concerts in London during a three-week period. She carefully cultivated calluses on her fingers and at times kept 65 harps in her Manhattan apartment. Dilling seasoned her recitals with spirited lectures on the harp's history and anecdotes like the one about the stranger who pointed to a harp, said, "Lady, learn me that...
...Vienna, almost everyone who counted in music and the government had shown up for American Conductor Lorin Maazel's long-awaited first performance after taking over as director. Then, 35 minutes into Tannhauser, the lead tenor, East Germany's Reiner Goldberg, dropped his harp and mumbled, "My voice-I can't go on." He then disappeared into the wings, leaving a stunned Venus alone in her grotto...
...particular remember Thompson's career there as a crusading U.S. Attorney who won 300 political-corruption convictions. But "Mr. Clean" seemed a bit besmirched earlier this year, after disclosures that as Governor he had accepted expensive gifts from people doing business with the state. Stevenson has declined to harp on that affair. Such tempting distractions from his economic analyses, he feels, merely feed the media's "appetite for the sensational...