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Word: accompanimental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The 33-minute work for six vocal soloists with chorus and full orchestra-but with no trumpets, and a Flügelhorn and alto trombone added-was presented by Venice's International Festival of contemporary music. Stravinsky's text and title-Threni, id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Threnody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Serial Success | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

This exultant shout marked the emotional peak of De Gaulle's 13,000-mile, ten-day campaign trip to persuade the 40 million inhabitants of France's African empire to vote for his new constitution-and thereby accept membership in a new "community of free states" led by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Campaigner | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Son of a Gloucestershire clergyman and blessed with a private income, Ralph Vaughan Williams was never a man in a hurry. Not until his 35th year, when his Walt Whitman cantata Toward the Unknown Region was performed (1907), did he attract any real attention; by then he was already six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Parish-Pump Composer | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

The program started off with the Sonata for Oboe and Piano of 1938, with Michael Senturia '58 as oboist and Norma Bertolami Sapp as pianist. The angular melody of the oboe in the first movement was sharply contrasted to its piano accompaniment. The second movement, much slower and containing a...

Author: By Peter Lindenbaum, | Title: Hindemith Concert | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

At the police station in the Shetland Islands capital of Lerwick, Teayn identified himself as an Estonian, begged political asylum because "they'll kill me if you send me back." In Parliament M.P.s stormed at this first invasion of the Shetland Islands since the days of the Spanish Armada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Invasion | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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