Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tonal Anguish. What the audience did notice was that there was nothing minor about Maag's conducting talent. He has all the requirements for a superior conductor of Haydn and Mozart -a faultless sense of classical proportion and a keen ear for blended Mozartean sonority that allows important detail to come through crisply...
...never so hurried that he loses the grace of an adagio and never so relaxed that he loses the punch of an allegro. He has a gifted sense of measure but, happily, never seems to be measuring. To hear him bring out the bittersweet tonal anguish lurking in the Symphony No. 39 was to realize for once just how much romantic sentiment really filled the classical little heart of Mozart...
...friendly nation" and rapped the Russians for still being so old-fashioned as to think of Europe in terms of blocs. Prime Minister Harold Wilson called the attack "a flagrant violation of all accepted standards of international behavior." In New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi expressed her "concern and anguish," but her statement was not strong enough to please members of Parliament, who filled the chamber with cries of "Dubcek! Dubcek!" Dem onstrations took place throughout the free world. In Bonn, German students mobbed the car of Soviet Ambassador Tsarapkin. In Tokyo, leftist students for the first time in history...
...Anguish to Joy. Continuing in its tradition of skillful, venturesome productions, the Santa Fe company last week gave the U.S. premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's dark, somber statement of musical theosophy, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder). Schoenberg wrote it in 1917 as an oratorio, but left it unfinished at his death in 1951. Santa Fe presented it as a visually cool, shadow-filled, dreamlike mystery play. In the final scene, the Dying Person (Soprano Patricia Wise) is led up a silver-covered staircase as she approaches death; then she begins to realize that she has gone through many...
...anguish of my solitude is sweet...