Word: crumb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under the new proposals, they will not be granted the right to vote, nor will they have their own separate "parliament," like the two chambers created last year for the vastly smaller colored (mixed race) and Indian communities. Thus, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu dismissed the latest proposals as a "crumb" and as "piecemeal reform, grudgingly given." Still, in the South African context, last week's announcements represented some progress. Welcoming the government's shift on its citizenship policy, the leader of the white parliamentary opposition, Dr. Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, declared, "It signals the end of the apartheid dream...
...George Crumb: A Haunted Landscape; William Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn and Orchestra. (New York Philharmonic, Arthur Weisberg, conductor (of the Crumb); Zubin Mehta, conductor (Schuman), with Philip Myers, horn; New World Records.) Blessed with one of the most remarkable ears for sonority of any modern composer, Crumb has long had a fascination with the otherworldly. In such works as Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, the two piano suites of Makrokosmos and the string quartet Black Angels, he combines a distinctive, flamboyant sense of instrumental color with a darkling imagination that results in some chillingly effective music. A Haunted...
...Philharmonic commission from 1980. A tired essay in Schuman's '50s style, the piece is only occasionally brightened by some pretty noises and adept writing for the solo instrument. Perhaps in response, Mehta turns in a slack reading, greatly in contrast to Weisberg's electric way with the Crumb...
...goes nowhere toward making us feel what Giles felt. We are not able to picture the young Giles' cynicism at Cambridge from the narrator's sarcasm. Giles himself does not seem to have learned anything from his experience either. We long for anecdote, gasping with renewed interest when a crumb of plot is revealed. Wilson may have done this intentionally is make us feel how petty Giles Fox's life is. If so, the idea fails, because the result is overblown in its melodrama and moreover-tedious to read...
...Broadway straight drama is a waif, proffered an occasional crumb of grudging acceptance; in London it sits at the head of the theatrical table dispensing "a largess universal, like the sun." Herewith a sampler of three offerings-a scintillant farce, a strong message play and a classic...