There are acoustically splendid open-air music structures where amplification is unnecessary, like the Music Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
What does remain is the splendid plein-air setting, the bay, the drawbridge and light that seems more nuanced than inland light.
By the early 1920s, he could already sense that "the whole golden boom was in the air – its splendid generosities, its outrageous corruptions and the tortuous death struggle of the old America in prohibition".
When English miners tunnelled under the walls and forced its surrender in September, Henry is said to have thrown his splendid hat in the air in exuberance, and it was caught and kept as a souvenir of the victory by one of his courtiers.
He beats Murray with one splendid forehand down the line, leaping high into the air, getting his racquet over the ball and absolutely bludgeoning it home.
In a season when New York's major museums seem excessively preoccupied with art from the previous century, "Gutai: Splendid Playground" is a breath of fresh air.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, February 25 , 1950 P. 21Feb. 13th, although a dark Monday with snow in the air, was a day of excellent portend & splendid natural tone.
The New Yorker, February 25 , 1950 P. 21Feb. 13th, although a dark Monday with snow in the air, was a day of excellent portend & splendid natural tone.
Other splendid performances in the Briers repertoire were aired once and forgotten, including the relentlessly upbeat simpleton Godfrey Spry, the star of 1993's If You See God, Tell Him.
Ms. Chalfant, a deep-voiced stage veteran of commanding reserve, and Ms. Thompson, an Oscar-winning British actress with a crisp air of forgiving irony, were both splendid in a role that fitted them more naturally than it does Ms. Nixon.
