Word: dissonante
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The play itself uses the excitement of the Forum's space to emphasize the dissonant, the eerie and the small. The audience capacity of 800 has been pared to less than 200, partly because of the sight-lines, but partly because, says Osius. "We wanted to keep things intimate. There...
The report card on Haig's trip, however, showed mixed grades. The Secretary clearly impressed the leaders of the four Middle East countries he visited -Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia-with his forthright style and grasp of issues. Haig was decidedly less successful in pushing for his strategic...
BartÓk's reputation, however, has grown steadily. The reason is not hard to find. Despite a sometimes highly dissonant and rhythmically spiky style, his music has a strong, direct appeal. As Musicologist Mosco Garner has observed: "Of the three musicians who dominated the musical scene during the...
IT IS A GARISH, cosmic nightclub, the figures on the floor drug-addled, lobotomized, throwing each other over, punching each other up, selling each other out. Elvis Costello has played a lot of clubs these last few years; after an angry, violent American tour, morsels of America sizzled in his...
THE MUSIC BOWIE employs on Scary Monsters matches this consciousness of sub-terranean gloom: it is shuddering, dissonant, ponderous, complex. "Scream Like a Baby" opens with a thud from George Murray's bass and a wail from Bowie; then, to a leaden bass drum beat and descending synthesized tones it...