Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Esterház (in eastern Austria), Haydn created operas, symphonies and chamber works whose freshness remains remarkably vivid. The Prince gave him a crack orchestra, and Haydn taught it a dramatic musical vocabulary unknown before his time. When it pleased him, he would begin a symphony (Nos. 22, 49) with a long slow movement instead of the expected brilliant allegro. Some of his effects were comic: in the finale of Symphony No. 60, the violins are asked to mistune their lowest string from G down to F, then pause in mock horror and raucously retune. At the end of Symphony...
...Memorial Hall of Harvard consists of three main divisions: one of them a theater, for academic ceremonies; another a refectory, covered with a timbered roof, hung about with portraits and lighted by stained windows, like the halls of the colleges of Oxord; and the third, the most interesting, a chamber high, dim, and severe, consecrated to the sons of the University who fell in the long Civil War. Ransom and his companion wandered from one part of the building to another, and stayed their steps at several impressive points; but they lingered longest in the presence of the white, ranged...
Beyond Nationalism. Though Peterson's audience was composed of British and U.S. businessmen at a Savoy Hotel lunch of the American Chamber of Commerce of the U.K., his words were plainly aimed at corporate and government chiefs everywhere. "It is just possible," said Peterson, "that businesses have the potential to handle internationalism better than governments." Specifically, he proposed "increasing operational cooperation" among businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic, especially through multinational corporations-companies owned and operated by citizens of several nations...
...Glee Club or even the HRO, it was slated to be the highlight of the concert season. John C. Adams is the most professional and professionally-minded student conductor Harvard has seen in half a dozen years. In addition he has won respect as a solo clarinetist and chamber musician. Daniel Troob, the excellent continuo-player in Adams's superb production of The Marriage of Figaro, was to team up with him again as the soloist in the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23. One glance at the back of the program made it abundantly clear that Adams has accomplished...
...deceptive victory. A coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats was able to pass a number of crippling amendments before the measure was approved by the lower chamber...