Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some critics complained that Penderecki had wasted an expense of talent in illustrating a bizarre footnote to history, and had failed to provide his opera with any sense of contemporary relevance. The audience response at the Hamburg premiere was a blend of boos and bravos, although applause predominated at a different production of the work in Stuttgart last week. Penderecki was unfazed. Isn't opera an archaic form for modern composers? he was asked. "Only people who don't have the brains to write one think so," was his answer...
...different dimension in my life, the message one of spiritual love, peace and understanding." The tension of his wavering whines and reedy growls is somewhat dispelled by the propelling, regular beat, making such tunes as New Generation and Everybody's Movin' an oddly felicitous blend of spiritual and material...
From the earliest days, Charles did his best to blend into the Trinity scenery. He shuffled about in baggy cord trousers and an old jacket, cooked his own breakfasts and bicycled to classes. He decided to try for a B.A. Much of his time was spent over his books, and in examinations at the end of his freshman year he wound up with the equivalent of an A minus average...
Always Ashamed. When John came out of the Army in June 1967, they practiced together for six months and pooled their resources. Early last year they were ready for a new career and a new name: Creedence (a blend of creed and credence, indicating their belief in themselves) Clearwater ("Something deep, true and pure, through which the light always shines," says John), and Revival (symbolizing their new direction...
Euripides' deep love of nature is vivid in the female chorus' delivery of his lyrical verse. But while the chorus blend their voices will when speaking in small groups, their attempts at unison are often meaningless and ragged...