Word: earlied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success in this kind of music, and in composing in general, he added, "is to learn music at the very first from the ear, not from the note." Schools should teach music students to "stretch their ears," to be creative and to "internalize" sounds instead of just writing them down, he said. However, he concluded, "we are today turning out a tremendous number of improvisors who are robots...
Trials? What trials?" said Soviet I Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, cupping his ear as if he did not understand the reporter's question. "I don't want to speak of these things." His American counterpart, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, when asked about the effect the trials of two Soviet dissidents would have on the scheduled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, was more direct. Without even cupping an ear, he strode away quickly to a waiting...
...jazz musicians, of course, are abandoning their convictions for crossover record profits. A number, like Taylor and Coleman, have headed in the opposite direction: into free-form experimental jazz, which seems to flaunt its abrasive sound, hitting you like a kick in the ear. Free jazz dispenses with the chord progressions and set rhythm that traditionally have ordered jazz, leaving each member of a group free to improvise both notes and tempo. It is intense sounding and often looks to the emotional power of African music for its antecedents. Says Taylor: "One of the things I had to divorce myself...
...Costa. Kazan, a director of note (A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, America America) tends to write scenarios rather than novels. That might be acceptable except for the fact that his dramatis personae seem to be created for the viewer rather than the reader. Still, the novelist's ear for Greco-American intonations is uncanny, and his destructive bitch goddess is so lethal that her comeuppance deserves the kind of cheers villains received when they were foiled in the last acts of Victorian melodramas. Neither they nor Acts of Love should be mistaken for Greek tragedy...
...world peace." The Soviets found Carter's words "strange," but so did quite a few Americans. Members of the House International Relations Committee had already complained of "confusion and doubt" in American foreign policy. "Who," Committee Member Dante Fascell demanded, "has got the President's right ear?" Both Vance and Carter tried to answer that question quite simply last week: Vance...