Word: fabricate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glowing Fabric. Alicia de Larrocha, now 44 and a superb concert pianist, never has freed herself from Granados' music. Instead, she has become its foremost interpreter, and last week, at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, she saluted the 100th anniversary of his birth with an all-Granados program...
Although she is so short (4 ft. 9 in.) that her feet barely reach the pedals, she took command of the keyboard like a man, shuttling her tiny hands furiously over the keys to weave notes into a glowing fabric of colors and sonorities. The climax of her recital was the 50-minute Goyescas, a work she seemed to have in her blood as well as her fingers. Formidably complex (some passages are scored on three staves instead of two), it unfolds in broad, rolling phrases that are punctuated by guitar rhythms and embroidered with intricate arabesques. De Larrocha...
...with grass-roots organizations, the Cambridge Corporation has Establishment written all over. It has no grass-roots representatives on its board and is entirely dependent on the educational and industrial establishments for its financial backing. "We are very conscious of the fact that we were created out of the fabric of the establishment," Brooks says. "Because we recognize that, we have an obligation to achieve total community objectives rather than the self-interested objectives of any one of the concerns backing us." Brooks admits that the Corporation will always be treated with suspicion by the people they want to work...
...most part from grey to basic black, was Von Karajan's own. The cast was handpicked, and the hand was his. He guided the Met's orchestra through what amounted to a graduate seminar on Wagnerian sonority, galvanizing that frequently scraggly ensemble into a pliant, rich tonal fabric...
Daniel Hechter, a major ready-to-wear designer, watched his orders for brown jump from 35% to 80%. Fabric makers began running out of stock, started using up old yardage as well as tinting all of their beige, light blues and whites. By last month, Stocking Manufacturer Gerbe was putting out 48,000 pairs of brown stockings and tights a week, and handbag shops found that nine out of every ten bags sold were brown...