Word: dissonante
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The most striking work of the evening was the Piano Sonata in G which received its first public performance by the composer, Paul Des Marais, instructor in music. The breadth of development in the opening movement is what impressed me first. Here is a modern composer who does not strip...
Brahms' Chorale Prelude, Herlich that mich verlangen, fared very well. This powerful, brooding work certainly does not deserve its long neglect. Mr. Reynolds duly emphasized its dark, half-dissonant harmonics.
Busoni: Sonata No. 2 (Richard Burgin, violin; Edward Weiss, piano; Circle). A massive and powerful work that seems younger than its 53 years. It is free of the flowery passage work of Busoni's famous piano transcriptions, but never dissonant in the modern sense. It is excellently performed by...
The chorus sang A Lyke-Wake Dirge before, between and after the solos. It was slow music, in close harmony and mildly dissonant, not a dirge of despair but rather "contemplative," as one listener put it. The soprano solo, The Maidens Came, was sparse, austere, reminded some in spirit of...
There were some dissonant chords in the calliope's unity music: ¶ The British, who are not members of the Schuman Plan but sit on its members' deliberations, were a little shocked by the Assembly's action. They consider the idea of European federation premature and just...