Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blake Recitative' By Edwin Roxburgh (1937- ) received its first performance in the United States. For contralto solo (Miss Paquet) and small string ensemble, the work combined clearly defined theme and form with a lyric excitement and mobility. In that it exploited chromatic resources and non-traditional tensions, it was a modern work. It was carefully thought out and emotionally effective. Miss Paquet handled the difficult solo line with sureness; her performance showed that what might have been thought an unmusical vocal line really just expanded the meaning of lyricism...
Only one Crimson tennis player was forced to play a third set Saturday as the varsity overwhelmed Columbia 9 to 0 for its third straight shut-out of the season. The squad's present string of 27 straight match victories marks it as one of the better teams in coach Jack Barnaby's 20 years with the University...
Billy Jim Layton's String Quartet in Two Movements is a more complex and venturesome work. Moevs's lines are always aware of their direction; Layton's stab this way and that and hover with despairing trills and tremulos through long, stirring passages of static progression. The brutality of the quartet's chords and textures is not only searing but tormented: their writhing raises questions quite beyond Moevs's solid ideas. To call this powerful expression "romantic" is meaningless; only the term introspection recognizes the heaviness of the music's human implications...
...syndication to TV stations all over the country, which will have to find their own sponsors. Each program runs an hour-or sometimes a bit more if the material requires the extra time-and only one commercial interrupts it. This week Concert Pianist Rudolf Serkin appears with the Budapest String Quartet in an hour of Beethoven and Schumann. The cameras come down close on Serkin's surprisingly pudgy fingers and recede into high overhead shots, but for the most part they keep still and leave the music uncorrupted by jazzy TV techniques...
...Horizontal Lieutenant (M-G-M). Funnyman Jim Hutton, 26, is an unpolished bean pole (6 ft. 3 in.) who gangles at all angles like the second-string center on a Y.M.C.A. basketball squad, but sputters sourprises like a bright, green Lemmon. Funnywoman Paula Prentiss, 23, is a Texas skyscraper (5 ft. 9¼ in.) who can look slim Jim in the eye without a periscope, and can come on and cut up like a junior-miss Rosalind Russell. If humor were measured in inches, Hutton and Prentiss would be the daffiest double in show business; since...