Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, the whole group is technically competent. But technique alone will not take you beyond the level of Czerny. There must also be some kind of substantive musical content, and this is where it becomes more difficult to judge experiments to which the ear is not yet accustomed. The less thoughtful critics, commenting on the attention surrounding Coleman a few years ago, exclaimed that "the Emperor has no clothes." But the real task, it seems to me, is to distinguish the serious musicians like Davidson from the charlatans--the guy who's had his saxophone two weeks and becomes...
When she learned last string that she would be in India this ear, Miss Levine arranged to work for News-week as a part-time correspondent. After the fighting broke out News-week asked Miss Levine for her impressions of the situation in Kashmir on the basis of the three weeks she spent there during the summer...
...National Science Foundation has reviewed the report and has increased its own funds ear-marked for chemical instruments...
...himself with grace and gallantry despite some crippling vulgarities in the Dale Wasserman script. Considering the pitch of her voice and the plunge of her neckline, Joan Diener is less an auditory than a visual treat. Irving Jacobson's Yiddish-accent Sancho Panza presents another problem for the ear...
...freak? Not at all, just a voice so seldom heard today as to sound strangely neuter at first hearing. But once the ear adapts to Deller's pure, vibratoless voice spiraling effortlessly up through the range of the female alto, the effect is entrancing. In two Handel arias, it floated lightly and lonely as a lark above the bustle of the orchestra. The performance had all the fresh appeal of a lost art rediscovered, which, in fact, it is. Deller is now 53, but when he first achieved recognition, he was the first virtuoso countertenor in 120 years. Almost...