Word: bela
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...fourth movement, Presto e scherzando presented a direct contrast--with its expulsions of happiness in the form of harmonic and melodic unpredictability--there was, nonetheless, room for moments of sensitive contemplation that the Guarneri String Quartet used in making the piece as cerebral as melodic. Their second piece, Bela Bartok's String Quartet No. 6, presented (as those familiar with Bartok can imagine) a very different effect. Bartok regarded the string quartet as "a laboratory of advancing musical ideas." In this spirit of experimentation, Bartok tested different principles of tonality and deviated from a traditional harmonic structure. The Guarneri String...
Mendel, the sellout second film of the festival, takes place nearly 50 years and a continent away from Arik Sharon. The German Jews Aron and Bela Trotzig move with their children David and Mendel to Norway from Germany in 1954 in an effort to escape the lingering horror of the Holocaust. Mendel, born after the war ended and temporarily shielded from knowledge of the Holocaust by his parents, confronts a world where much remains incomprehensible and the past is a blank. His main concern becomes his struggle to decipher the story he has only half-heard in whispers his whole...
...play it, not only to make big bucks but also because they like it. When Jean-Yves Thibaudet, famous for his interpretations of Ravel and Rachmaninoff, records an album of piano solos by jazz great Bill Evans, or the Kronos Quartet programs Jimi Hendrix side by side with Bela Bartok, you know something is happening...
However, FAU has lost Bela Szabados, a freshman freestyler who took the 200 at NCAAs last year. If juniors Matuszak and Mike Kiedel hit the water hard, they will offer some real competition in FAU's strength...
...mother Melanie turned to Kerri's father in the stands and said, "Oh, my gosh, something's wrong." Burt Strug tried to reassure her that it was just a charley horse. Strug's coach, Bela Karolyi--a camera-hogging cheerleader throughout the competition--shouted encouragement as Strug tried to shake off the pain. Actually, Strug's score of 9.162 was enough to ensure the U.S. victory, making a second vault unnecessary. But no one on the team knew that. "We had no idea what the score was," said co-head coach Mary Lee Tracy. "What...