Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Henze. "There is a gap of understanding today between the composer and performers. Most composers don't care what kind of human being plays the music, and they make it too often senselessly difficult. If a musician insists that a passage is unplayable, I'll alter it. Nowadays, when everything is done by machinery, I think it is wonderful that something is left that can be done by hand-like love and music...
Anouilh has been criticized for daring to alter certain features of Sophocles' play. But he had every right to do so. After all, Sophocles' own version of the tale was far from the first, and contained its own innovations. Before Sophocles, Antigone was supported in her act by other young maidens; and she was defying, not Creon and his guards, but the corporate decree of the entire Theban Senate. Sophocles had the inspired idea of placing Antigone in glorious isolation; and, as Sir Donald F. Tovey said in a quite different context, "Nothing in human life and history is much...
...alter that arrangement, the hippies hope to generate an entirely new society, one rich in spiritual grace that will revive the old virtues of agape and reverence. They reveal, says University of Chicago Theologian Dr. Martin E. Marty, "the exhaustion of a tradition: Western, production-directed, problem-solving, goal-oriented and compulsive in its way of thinking." Marty refuses to put the hippies down as just another wave of "creative misfits," sees them rather...
...articulators (tongue, teeth, lips, soft palate and jaw muscles), Kersta says, it is highly improbable that any two voices can be identical. Thus, voiceprints, like fingerprints, can be used to make a positive identification. Whispering, muffling the voice, changing its pitch, or even mimicking another voice will not alter the basic voiceprint pattern...
...those descriptions: he denounced Stalin and initiated the cultural thaw in Soviet life; he built the Berlin Wall and wisely backed down from the Cuban missile crisis after rashly getting into it; most important, he allowed the Soviet economy to become consumer oriented, a process that has begun to alter the very nature of Marxism...