Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TUCHMAN'S TALENT FOR bringing historic episodes into sharp, dramatic focus has few rivals among modern writers. The words James Thurber once wrote of E.B. White could apply to Tuchman too: her sentences are "silver and crystal"; her ear "not only notes the louder cosmic rhythms, but catches the faintest ticking sounds...
This endeavor stars Boyce Kaihiihikapuokalani, a citizen remarkable, if not for his voice, then at least for courage in signing his kindergarten drawings. The album also features a number of other bilinguists, who sing every few lines of most of the cuts in "ear-caressing" Hawaiian and the rest in plain old English. The result is jarring, to say the least; not to disparage our compatriots to the southwest, but consider the following phonetic interpretation of "Jingle Bells...
...felt compelled to whisper in his ear. "What's going on outside?" I asked...
...19th century robber barons would be speechless. Instead of turning a deaf ear to their workers' concerns, a growing number of corporations are urging employees to get things off their chests by going directly to the boss on hot lines or through the mail. Firms have devised programs with catchy names such as Expressline, Speak Up! and Open Door that guarantee confidentiality and offer assurances of action on valid complaints...
...Barcarola, a darkly impressive work for large orchestra, Henze imaginatively and theatrically depicts the gloomy world of Charon, the ferryman of dead souls across the river Styx. On display in each were Henze's command of orchestration, his sturdy sense of musical architecture and his unerring ear for effective sonorities...