Word: dissonante
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(3 of 4) ago by two French enthusiasts. Though some expatriate jazzmen never had a career worth saving at home, some have abandoned highly successful lives in America in favor of life abroad. Among the 20 or so excellent jazz musicians in Europe today are three of the best anywhere...
When the Philharmonic commissioned the symphony in 1960, Schuman was still president of the Juilliard School of Music. The composing took him, Schuman computes, 645 hours and 30 minutes, and he finished it last June. The symphony was a typically Schuman-crafted product: powerful, impetuous, rhythmically complex and grindingly dissonant...
A small circle of devotees gathered in a Manhattan living room one night last week and watched while their host turned the lights low and slipped a tape into his hi-fi equipment. Music flooded the room -passionate, dissonant, moving in great intervals toward massive climaxes, resolving at last into...
"Amazing & Dissonant." Delighted Republicans found it impossible to hold their silence. Arizona's Barry Goldwater sarcastically wondered aloud whether ex-Republican Morse was considering a switch back to the G.O.P. side of the aisle. Illinois' mellow-voiced Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen arose to "protect" Mansfield against Morse...
In John Wayne's forthcoming African epic, Hatari, Heroine Elsa Martinelli leads three baby elephants, trunk to tail, to a jungle water hole, then back up a hill to a camp. It is a nice scene, but hardly vital to the film. What makes it indispensable is Mancini'...