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Word: creakiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craft, and the longhair (Hank Dutt) plays, appropriately, the viola. Along with violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, they form the Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fanatic Champions of the New | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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