Word: dissonante
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Swing in the '30s put Chicago jazz into large bands with massed rhythms and careful arrangements. In the late '40s bop became briefly fashionable, with its air-splitting protests against swing stereotypes, but bop's own offbeat, spastic rhythms quickly palled. The jazz style called modern does...
With understandable pride, the orchestra played a modern Dutch composition, Henk Badings' Symphony No. 2 (1932), a sturdy work that might have been written by a latter-day Brahms, its three movements definitely dissonant but never harsh. High point of the concert was Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe...
Clearly, today's United Nations is not what its founders had in mind in 1945. Instead of a true global organization, it today resembles a giant coalition of the free world against the Soviet Union and its satellites. Wartime U.S. Soviet harmony has turned to dissonant conflict. Envisioned as an...
Cheltenham, a cream-colored Georgian town at the foot of England's Cotswolds Hills, used to attract people mainly for its mineral waters and its fine public schools. But the war brought aircraft accessory industries to the town, and with the population change, town councilors began to look around...
Schnabel: Piano Concerto (Helen Schnabel; Vienna Orchestra conducted by F. Charles Adler; SPA). An early (1901) composition by the late dean of pianists. Coming from the man who later favored an ultra-dissonant, involved style, this lilting, MacDowell-style score falls with strange grace on the ear. The performance (by...