Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christian Wolff's music is not easily accessible either. It is a decidedly esoteric product of the John Cage cult, although probably better than anything Cage has done. Mr. Wolff played four pieces for piano and one for prepared piano. The technique is pointillist; tones are widely dispersed over the keyboard range, and in their succession they seldom suggest melody in the traditional sense of the term--single tones and sonorities assume a significance in themselves, and the phrase or line is replaced by the aggregate of points. Whether the feeling of oppression from lack of variety which comes after...
...third period, Ken Marmar kicked a corner shot into a Tufts fullback, bouncing the ball into the cage for another score. Other goals in the second half were kicked by John Himmelhock and Marmar. The game was called because of darkness midway through the last period...
Governor Christian A. Herter '15 will speak at 4 p.m. today in Carey Cage. His talk is sponsored by the Student Association of the Business School. All students interested are invited to attend...
...blue-and-red standards of the famous "Screaming Eagles"-the 101st Airborne Division of World War II. In front of the reviewing stand perched a bald eagle, hastily acquired from a South Carolina zoo. Unused to the rocket blast and the plane roar, it had battered itself against its cage all day. Now, as the troops massed, the bands blared, and the colors were handed over, it rested hooded and bound on its perch, its right wing trailing downward. Not once did it scream...
...each other, tend to communicate with each other through keyboard tones rather than spoken words. First as students, then as instructors at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, they experimented with piano sound by placing all kinds of objects among the strings, a method pioneered by Composer John Cage, who called it "prepared piano." In 1948 they succeeded in producing a thudding drum effect (by shoving pieces of rubber between the strings) and used it in their version of Ravel's Bolero. Their latest effort is even weirder. The tunes in Soundproof (Greensleeves, Baia, Lover) contain effects that...