Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sonata for Viola Solo, Opus 25, No.1, was the first of four pieces from the early 1920's, thus coming from the time before Hindemith was 30 years old. Hindemith, a concert violist himself, was familiar with the sonic abilities of that instrument. The piece was a study in dissonance, brought about by playing on two strings at once. The multiple-stopping was at times very difficult, but Eleftherios Eleftherakis played brilliantly for the most part. The piece and its performance were marked by a great richness of tone and lucidity...
...very day the mutinous Iraqi army officers took over Baghdad and proclaimed their comradeship with Nasser, an Egyptian officer arrived in Khartoum and announced himself new counselor to the Egyptian embassy. To the Sudanese government the name of Ali Khashaba was familiar. Iraq and Lebanon had already expelled him for subversion. Last spring Saudi Arabia, kicking him out, accused him of masterminding a plot to murder King Saud. Within three days of his arrival in Khartoum, the Sudanese government charged Ali Khashaba with stirring up subversion, gave him exactly 24 hours to get out of the country...
...This Ain't the Blues (Jimmy Rushing & band; Vanguard). The indestructible Mr. Five-by-Five of the old Basie Band shouts some familiar blues and ballads-My Friend Mr. Blues, Pennies from Heaven-with a voice like a curdled trumpet backed by a solid boomp-a-cha beat. Jimmy sometimes wheezes now, but his talent for reading a message of ageless evil into the simplest of lyrics-"Sometimes I think I will/Then again I think I won't" -is as strong as it ever...
...Southern poets the right to sing of nature, harmony, metaphysics." They sought, the critic notes, a "dreamy sentimentalism and provincial elegy." This movement began among students at the University of Tennessee, and included, along with Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Merrill Moore, Sidney Metron Hirsch, and--familiar to members of the Summer School--Allen Tate and William Yandell Elliott...
...than Fitzgerald, for his symbolism grew out of America's new awareness of sex. His audience ranked him with Poe, Whitman, and Twain. He was an institution, property of campus esoterics; and a legend--a mysterious collector of medieval lore, a scholar in "forbidden topics," a familiar in strange compacts with the devil--and, wrote Carl Van Doren, a rumored participator in "misdemeanors not so spiritual...