Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening began with a joke. Seven members of the orchestra played the Schleptet in E flat, S.O., by musicologist Peter Schickele, more familiarly known as P.D.Q. Bach (1807 -- 1742), the last and the least of Johann Sebastian's sons. Satirizing serious music, the Schleptet demands a wide range of comic effects, including a nose-dive by the French horn player, which sends fragments of a collapsible horn sailing across the stage into the audience, and woodwind burps usually reserved for a beginner's practice room...
...real program opened inauspiciously with the introduction of Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in E flat sounding tentative and timid. Perhaps Stulberg intended to set off the later robust sections of the movement with his restrained opening, but he drew a sound more anemic than richly resonant. During this section, moving lines in the lower strings were buried by enthusiastic violins. In the slower second movement, the group seemed to recover from its weak start as Stulberg set an easy pace for the almost religious lyrical passages that followed. He allowed the audience to revel in Mozart's rich, melancholy...
These figures spurred a compromise proposal which would have exempted manufacturers from flat rates, but this proposal was rejected by the legislative leadership...
...Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz, who has been interviewed by her several times and is a personal friend: "She always asks the questions most Americans want to know, not just the questions on the minds of the professionals. And she doesn't allow you to get away with a flat statement if there's no substance...
...finale, he chose Berg as his crew. Berg has the size required to sail the Tempest, which has a relatively ineffective keel and a large sail area of 247.6 square feet, making the job of keeping the boat flat in heavy air suited to a big crew. Berg is 6 ft., 3 in. and weighs 230 pounds. "And I could go up another 15 pounds for the trials," he adds...