Word: aural
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holidays are Washington's Birthday (winter), Decoration Day (spring), the Fourth of July (summer) and Thanksgiving (autumn). Ives, the great American innovator, originally composed this symphony as four separate pieces, starting in 1897. Some 16 years later he fused them to make a series of aural reminiscences of his boyhood holidays in Danbury, Conn. Firecrackers explode, a village band escorts the parade to the cemetery to decorate graves, fancy fiddling and a twanging Jew's-harp reverberate through a winter barn dance. Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Camptown Races-Ives borrowed quotes from...
...Aural Part. If Levine is a man in a hurry, he obviously thrives on it. "I never had even a tiny, faint conflict about what I wanted to do, not for as long as I can remember," he says. As a piano prodigy of ten, Levine played the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Cincinnati Symphony. When it came time for a reward from his delighted parents, the answer was quick: "I want to go to New York and to the Metropolitan Opera." Later, as a student at the Juilliard School he could usually be found at the opera...
...aural part of Madden's performance, however, that severely damages of this difficult role is that it requires the actor to be overwrought for a prolonged time and yet clear. Madden gargles his denunciation of Camillo, and speech after speech in his lengthy argument with Paulina is not intelligible. And when he comes to speaking over the wind-storm, it's impossible to make out a single syllable...
...beat tapped out on a pair of hollow sticks. Musicians sprinkle percussive accents around the clave and layer complicated rhythms on top of it: bands like to get six or eight going simultaneously. But it is the continuous clave beat that starts feet moving, hands clapping, and prevents aural chaos...
...years that followed, Philharmonic Hall, despite the expenditure of millions of dollars, became a classic case of aural bad luck. The final blow apparently came last fall when two of its most eminent visitors, the Boston Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra, announced that they would move back next season to venerable Carnegie Hall where the sound is warm...