Word: elgar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from occasional Circus assignments now living in the Tuscany hills, where his bookish habits have earned him the sobriquet "the Schoolboy." Westerby carries the spy's classic cards of identity: robust health, womanizing instincts and moral numbness. With words that could have been set to music by Sir Edward Elgar, Smiley reminds his operative of a historian who "wrote of generations that are born into debtors' prisons and spend their lives buying their way to freedom. I think ours is such a generation. Don't you?" Jerry laughs: "Sport, for heaven's sake. You point me and I'll march...
...down (D). The first note of the melody is represented by an asterisk. For example, the famous signature of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would be written *RRD. Mary Had a Little Lamb works out like this: *DDUUR RDRRU URD. Graduates who this June march up the aisle to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance-*DUUDD DDUUD UUUUU-may well sing *URRUD DUUDR UUU, Auld Lang Syne, when next they meet. Letter codes for musical compositions are arranged in alphabetical order, with classical melodies carried through the first 16 notes and popular songs through 14 tones...
...occasionally. Heath, who was ousted as head of the Conservatives in February, made his continental debut as a symphony conductor last week before sellout audiences in Bonn and Cologne. At the invitation of Maestro André Previn, Heath led the London Symphony Orchestra through a 15-minute performance of Elgar's Cockaigne overture while West German TV cameras recorded the event. "Scintillating," applauded Bonn's General-Anzeiger. "Heath probably took Richard...
...music simply will not go away, despite the condescension of academia and the critics. He may not have written music "of his own time" (assuming serialism and atonality to be the proper fashion), but then neither does Benjamin Britten nor Dmitri Shostakovich. Nor, in other eras, did Edward Elgar or Bach worry about being in vogue...
Barenboim Conducts Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat, Opus 63 (London Phil harmonic Orchestra, Columbia; $5.98). Wildly famous in his day, the stately, sunlit tonal landscapes of Sir Edward Elgar withered before the 20th century's neoclassic revolt. Elgar died nearly forgotten in 1934. In this stylish reading of the E-flat symphony Daniel Barenboim takes a fresh look at the elegant Edwardian, holding a course of gentle restraint against an exuberance of leaping octaves and rolling timpani. Barenboim reclaims the Elgar grandeur without losing any of the buoyancy that captivated 19th century audiences...