Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held at an unexpected angle ... a sudden burst of lovely blue light. It is not a transcendental illumination, exactly. Transcendentalism was a short-lived American moonshine. Emerson's light is brighter. It glows with an eerily sweet intelligence and morning energy. Emerson's sentences make a moral flute music-prose as a form of awakening. They move in a dance of sensual abstractions, small miracles of rhetoric. He had no genius for massive literary architecture; he dealt in the lustrous fragments of his essays, in a succession of quiet flashes...
Johnson continued to pursue interests outside sports, especially in music, which she describes as a "lifelong bobby." An aficionado of the flute who picked up the trombone "when my flute got stolen, because it made more noise," Johnson even managed to make a name for herself on the Harvard Band...
...devastated. "Shot putting is not my raison d'etre," she explains. "Sometimes I see these shot putters who are shot putters through and through, but in the long run I know I have more than they do, I mean, how good are they in basketball? Can they play the flute? That's one of the greatest things about being a Harvard athlete--it means that you have more going for you than just your sport...
...overcome, that no problem is too much for well-meaning people. It's Wonderful Life was much more carefully crafted. Its direction was far better than Mark Rydell's in On Golden Pond; Capra's film avoids the dippy touches like shots of water lillies set to flute music and the cozy nature symbolism that pervade the Pond. Still, both films are escapes into a blithe cheerfulness--one which, despite its occasional silliness has its place. You do not have to subscribe to this optimism to enjoy it occasionally...
...principle of tension and release. The first section is for the instrumental ensemble only, unaided by electronics. The tension is created by rapid, repeated-note figurations and massed sonorities. The release, such as it is, comes from a series of eerie tremolos and trills reminiscent of the doom-laden flute flutterings in Strauss's opera Salome. The soloists enter with a computer-assisted arpeggio, vibrating and echoing over the six large loudspeakers that are stationed around the hall. Then the soloists and the ensemble interact, responding to each other in the manner of Renaissance polyphony...