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Marijuana strikes a chord with rockers and rappers...
...Christian, on a business trip to Paris. They walked along the Seine in the shadow of Notre Dame and discussed the idea that we all carry around with us a God-shaped vacuum and try unceasingly to fill it with other things. "That notion just struck an incredibly responsive chord in me," remembers Newlin. She realized that she "had created an idol out of work, had sacrificed my time and effort to it, and it stopped working." She was baptized in January 1992 and began attending Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and working in a homeless shelter. Four...
...symphony struck such a resonant chord? The texts, which include a 15th century monastic lament, a mournful folk song about the death of a child and, most movingly, a brief prayer to the Virgin inscribed on the wall of a Gestapo prison by an 18-year-old Polish girl, evoke a sunless world of pain and suffering. The ineffable music, which unfolds seamlessly from small, minimalist melodic motifs, evolves into a soaring Brucknerian cathedral. Hardly the stuff of which gold records are made...
...series of 14 variations on the slow movement of Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata, with an optional opportunity for an improvised cadenza before the final variation. The theme itself is not stated anywhere in the piece, and one catches only a few glimpses of it throughout--an occasional dominant seventh chord, or the five-note descending scale that concludes each half of the Beethoven movement. Rather than indulging in much direct quotation, Rzewski's variations preserve certain abstract qualities of the original. Beethoven's registral disjuncture, for example, is taken to extremes, and the thick, closed chords of the theme, which...
...more we monkey with nature, the more we seek assurance that somewhere it is beyond our tinkering. To a world idling in traffic, "Alaska" strikes a primal chord. Our longing expresses itself in mail-order catalogs full of the back-to-nature look and in the popularity of films like Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans and A River Runs Through It, viewed by urban audiences sitting elbow-to-elbow in the dark. Most will never know what it is to be dwarfed by an old-growth forest, spy brook trout sipping mayflies or hear a wolf howl...