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Folk music strikes a responsive chord in people because it reflects life in basic human terms and with powerful, poetic truth. Even its war songs, both anti-war and battle sagas, are expressed in poignant, personal terms...
Spartacus, in fact, was more pantomime than dance-and silent-screen pantomime at that. From the first sledgehammer chord, accompanied by the projection of Rome's Colosseum on the scrim curtain, spectators might well have guessed that they were in for triumphal processions, slave girls, gladiators and courtesans, eye-rolling, tooth-gnashing and a dose of belly dancing. By Scene 2 of Act I, 16 corpses were sprawled about the stage...
...Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and it has been, as one of them described it, rather like "trying to get six composers to write one symphony." In recent weeks, the theme has progressed to the point where the composers can start planning the final, climactic chord-a monumental piece of sculpture to be placed beside the reflecting pool in the North Plaza. From the beginning, the center's designers wanted something"heroic," and the name of Britain's Henry Moore (TIME cover, Sept. 21, 1959) kept popping up time and again...
Less gymnastic than their title would suggest, Erik Satie's Trois Gymnopedies (1888) are pastoral melodies with an extremely simple accompaniment of strings and harp. But even in his most restrained mood, Satie could not resist a final playful tweak: the three pieces end on the "wrong" chord (subdominant); but nobody notices this joke any more, and the Trois Gymnopedies pass, to Satie's undoubted horror, as incorrigibly romantic...
Productivity & Profits. Big Steel's basic problem was one that struck a responsive chord in the heart of many a U.S. businessman. For four years, argued U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, his company's production and labor costs have been inching up. but its prices have increased not at all-partly because American steel has been meeting increasing competition from lower-cost foreign steel and domestic steel substitutes, such as aluminum, concrete and plastics...