Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delight your girl friend, sister or mother Christmas morning with a pair of mink ear muffs from Sak's for only $15. Among Sak's fine collection of compacts, umbrellas, cigarette lighters, pocketbooks and perfumes, you are sure to find something to please all the women in your life...
Vincent Persichetti's Bagatelles for Band, which began the evening, is an example of this ambivalence. The four movements, while containing interesting rhythmic devices and harmonic structures, were unsatisfying as individual entities and failed to form a coherent whole. Phrases caught the ear, but no meaning or emotion was conveyed. Canzona, by Julliard director Peter Mennin, was similarly unsatisfying...
These criticisms, though, might be ascribed to a conservative bent in my ear, and perhaps for that reason I most enjoyed the Tower Music of Alan Hovhaness. Tranquil and lush, the music reflected a mood of quiet contemplation. Walker's musicians took full advantage of the opportunity for richness and filled the Eliot hall with perfectly blended harmonies...
...surfaces" in which he tries "to penetrate the primeval aspect of matter." Shells, corals, bones, bulbs-all fascinate him. So do his microscopic studies of bits of skin, strands of hair, pieces of crystal. Transposed to canvas, these forms turn into other forms, so that the interior of an ear can just as well be the inside of a flower...
...loving ear to all I lend...