Word: chordingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...recognized is that peope are on different wave-lengths." This meshed nicely with the assurance Bey's interpreter gave before the program that the "astral, or soul body is the force that binds the chemical body to God. And Bey, by completely mastering the astral body, loosens the silver chord and goes into the world beyond...
...best friends, a pixy of an Irishman and an ugh-ly Indian, die while helping him. His eldest son butters political palms for crooked contracts, and his youngest is killed at Chateau-Thierry. Even the crops fail, and he has to peddle firewood from door to door. One last chord of longing keeps Ase playing at life: he wants to see his brother Ben before he dies. At the age of 80, he does. He finds Ben a wizened-up derelict dying in a Frisco flophouse. "I failed," Ase tells him. "You've done right, Ase," says Ben. Both...