Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glee Club and Choral Society together with the New England Conservatory Chorus, made up the chorus. As could only have been expected from three of Boston's best choral groups, they performed well. The blend was good (they sang as sections, not as individuals), and the diction was adequate, though I doubt they could have given more. Since every singer dreams of performing in Beethoven's Ninth, it is not surprising that the chorus's contribution was gusty and exuberant...
...felt strange to be sitting in Symphony Hall, listening to Leinsdorf conduct the BSO, and hearing bad blend and faulty intonation even occasionally. The total effect of the Beethoven was exhilarating, but I can't help wondering, in retrospect, whether my standards are too high (after all, the players are only human), or whether it could indeed have been better. When the Aristocrat of Orchestras falls down on the job, what values are sacred...
...support," Pei's problem in building a national memorial in the heart of Cambridge seems agonizingly difficult. Along the north side of the MBTA yards (the back of Brattle Square), he has to cope with motels, gas stations, and small stores, with their billboards and neon signs. "We must blend and defend," he says. "This is a great challenge...
...carcasses of water buffalo. Dogs prowl through the rubble, stirring up black clouds of flies, as they try to reach putrid human flesh buried beneath the mud bricks and roof tiles of shattered houses. A few Pakistani police patrol the streets to prevent looting but, otherwise, Kasur is a blend of stomach-turning smells and silence...
...blend of baroque Romanita and Christ-inspired simplicity, of tradition and innovation, the procession symbolized in microcosm what the Second Vatican Council has become. Protestant Theologian Albert Outler, an observer at Vatican II for the World Methodist Council, sums it up as a "Reformation, Roman-style " Unlike Luther's drastic break with the medieval past, it is a reformation in which change is often so subtle that it sometimes does not seem like change at all. It is a reformation in which radical ideas blossom in traditional Latin garb, in which continuity receives as much emphasis as novelty, in which...