Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only in Op. 10, no. 4, did the racing notes melt into an indistinguishable blur. In every case he clearly solved the problem of extracting the melodic line from a morass of notes and floating it above the cleanly formed accompaniment. His facility was most clearly demonstrated in the familiar "Aeolian Harp" Etude where the simple tune--played entirely by the pinky of the right hand--holds forth against a feathery arpeggiated figure. Success here requires no more than complete control of the hands and a little extra thought in the practice room...
...more familiar than Borges with the problems of translation (few know as many languages as he). Having rendered numerous works into his native Spanish, he is now working with Norman Thomas diGiovanni to prepare English translations of an upcoming volume of Borges' selected poems. The pair is trying to avoid the "maybe inevitable mistake" made by Borges' previous translators: "Latin words are natural in Spanish, but may be unnatural and far-fetched in English." The problem is to find a natural blend of Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words...
Jostling through the victory-night crowd at his Manhattan campaign head quarters, Richard Nixon savored an un familiar sensation. For the first time in years, he felt like a winner again. "We won't need a recount," he chuckled to the crowd. "This is a beginning, a very smashing victory...
Last week in Boston, he demonstrated with his new Piano Concerto No. 2 why it is that conductors, soloists and the public have only the kindest of words for him. He is not afraid of melo dy or tonality, and he has the courage to write in the familiar mainstream tra dition of Bartok and Prokofiev-the titters of twelve-tone, modified twelve-tone, post-Webern and electronic cliques notwithstanding. That is not to say he is old hat. Within the bounds of con ventional forms like the symphony, sonata, string quartet and concerto, Lees manages to be fascinatingly original...
...that she would accord the same accolade to that waiting room of the mid-20th century, the nervous, noisy jetport. For travelers in a hurry, it is all too often a place for enforced contemplation, while airlines catch up with their weather-beaten schedules. Novelist Hailey gives airports his familiar Hotel treatment, and the result may permanently ground all his readers...