Word: sunsetting
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...mellow voice and French Baritone Martial Singher singing with enormous power and control. Roberta Peters was the pert doll. The standout was Soprano Lucine Amara. who brought to the stage the kind of dazzling vocal splendor that made the Met famous. The sound of her voice was eggshell-fragile, sunset-colored, and so surprisingly powerful that the audience burst into cheers at the end of her big aria...
...form of a St. Andrew's cross on the floor for the warlike sword dance. By that time, brothers in the gallery had passed the limits of endurance and were shrieking their own war whoops. Then it was closing time, and the band went into the "Sunset Ceremony." At the end, the band stopped playing and a spotlight picked out a lone piper-high in the gallery, as if he were perched on a castle battlement-playing a lullabye called Highland Cradle Song. It was enough to dew the eyes of even the un-kilted. The only thing missing...
With these points cleared up, the orchestra played through the work. It opened somberly, a death march with sighing strings, touched here and there with sunset colors. As a climax to the symphony's first section, winds played a noble tune over massed strings that sounded as if they had just come from prayer meeting. With the second part, the composition went into dance rhythms that turned misterioso with a ululating vibraphone, then into a drunken Kerry dance with skirling reeds, then into a ragtime climax followed by a pastoral section that sounded as if it should be called...
...Aerobee rocket soared up last week from Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. carrying an odd pay load. Inside its nose were two heavy steel cylinders containing thermite* and 2 lbs. each of metallic sodium. The rocket took off 20 minutes after sunset. When it reached 40 miles and had disappeared from sight, automatic instruments ignited the thermite in the cylinders. The sodium vaporized, jetting out of a hole in the rocket's nose, and a brilliant orange-colored trail appeared against the blue sky. This was the sodium; it picked up the light of the sun, still shining...
...fact that its 145-minute mass is sometimes dragging, Oklahoma! hollers itself home as a handsome piece of entertainment. The plot, to begin with, is just about perfect for a musical: cowboy loves farmgirl, sinister farmhand menaces farmgirl, cowboy kills farmhand, cowboy weds farmgirl, everybody rides into sunset. It is as simple and innocent as a birthday cake, in which the songs are set as naturally as candles-and dazzling good songs they still...