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...most striking difference between the Concentus Musicus and other orchestras is the quality of sound: this group is completely different. The reason is the instruments: all are originals or reconstructions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century instruments. The strings have a far brighter sound, richer in harmonics than their modern counterparts. The string choir resembles a group of soloists rather than the modern symphony's big, anonymous cushion of sound. The woodwinds are changed from the way we know them: the oboes and bassoons, like the strings, are sharper and brighter; the flute is much softer. The brass is an entirely...
...strings, oboes and bassoons, and trumpets and tympani. The concept of tympani acting as a bass instrument (as legitimate as bassoon, cello, or violone) is foreign to us; but the particular sound of these drums (partly from the use of ivory mallets without felt) gives them a much brighter tone that blends with the trumpets...
...brighter side of the coin was that Presidential Assistant Peter G. Peterson predicted that devaluation's boost to U.S. exports will create at least 500,000 new jobs over the next two years, primarily in the steel, clothing and farm-related industries. Even Hollywood studio executives spliced themselves into the act, calculating that devaluation will bring higher revenues from cinema audiences abroad and repatriate some "runaway" productions that had shifted to foreign shores...
...housewives, who were earning less money than anyone else, expressed about as much satisfaction as any other group in the sample. There is little here to support the feminist argument that a housewife's life is intolerable, especially for educated, intelligent women. It would be hard to pick a brighter group than the women in this study, yet they seemed to be adjusting easily to their lot. To give but one example of the many striking cases, a woman whose I.Q. of 192 places her close to the top of the entire sample, and whose re-tested intelligence at maturity...
Freeze in Decisions. For all the bad signs, there were also brighter portents. In a significant measurement of the effectiveness of the freeze, the Commerce Department announced that the overall rate of inflation dropped from an annual rate of 4% in the second quarter to 31% in the third quarter. And in September the consumer price index climbed by only .2%, or about half the rate of the previous six months. Meanwhile, New York's First National City Bank estimated that U.S. corporate profits after taxes in the third quarter climbed by 8% compared with the same period last...