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...Then it turned to roadmaking. Plodding away from the fiesta, a Friend of Sanare had said, "Next year, when we celebrate the machine's birthday, possibly we shall not have to walk." An old woman added. "If God wills it, and the Virgin." And then someone struck a chord on a guitar, and they walked off singing...
...last time West Berliners saw their lord mayor in public was at the end of an evening of Wagner in their Municipal Opera House. The last chord of the Gotterdämmerung had ebbed, the lights were up, the audience rose to go. Burly, hunched Ernst Reuter still sat in his center loge, his eyes bright, abstractedly beating time with nicotine-stained forefinger to some passage of the music that had died. Two days later Ernst Reuter, rumpled, undaunted hero of the cold war, died at his modest home of a heart attack...
...Chapin's Ruby Green Singing (opposite) tries to portray "the beauty of Negro music and the Negro people." The grandeur of this idea belies the surface simplicity of the painting. Whether or not the picture communicates as much as Chapin hoped it would, it does find a responsive chord in a great many people. Ruby Green is the public favorite in a deep-South museum: the Norton Gallery at West Palm Beach...
...apparently simple songs contain quick musical details that slip past human ears. On studying the visual records, the scientists found that many birds are musical gymnasts, playing on their vocal organs as if they were string quartets. The blue jay, for instance, can sing what amounts to a major chord, holding a low note and a high note simultaneously; then after a hundredth of a second, he adds a middle note. The wood thrush can hold as many as four simultaneous notes...
Stravinsky's orchestration was the best thing in the production: it probably established a record for different ways of sounding a common chord, and it was as full of his halting, polka-like rhythms as Traviata is of waltzes. But after 3½ hours the audience had had more than enough: most of it had left before the last bows were taken...