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...problem of hearing all that is essential. In the Violin Concerto, this dilemma assumes near-fatal proportions. The solo instrument is integrated into a large Wagnerian orchestra, which it must dominate with music marked mezzo-piano (or softer) seventy-five per cent of the time! Now Berg was no fool; the orchestra's dynamics are determined accordingly. But no orchestra can or will play continually softly, and the HRO proved no exception. The resulting acoustical imbalance seriously challenged the considerable prowess of violinist Charles Castleman...
Perhaps he did. His friends in the Berliner Ensemble may have jeered at him as a fool for returning, or perhaps acidly criticized him for bringing the police around to question their possible complicity. No one will ever be certain, for Christian Weisbrod was quite dead when they found his body in East Berlin's 13th century Marienkirche. He had swallowed pesticide...
Alfred makes the most of traditional devices. His protagonist is a man of pride and ambition who falls. There is a Fool, Petey Boyle, a hanger-on of Stanton's. There is a prophetic Priest, Father Coyne. The confrontations between Stanton and Quinn are carefully spaced and prepared. Alfred's nine years of writing have produced the highly controlled play which his buoyant, poetic dialogue needs for grounding...
From the insulated viewpoint of the pre-season forecaster, three of the last four games on Harvard's schedule looked like soft, soft deal. Sure, Princeton would be tough, but any fool could see that Penn. Brown, and Yale (yes, even Yale) would be pushovers...
...will be pushed into expanding faster than their markets can grow. If that happens-and economists disagree strongly over whether it is likely-operating rates could decline next year and create a squeeze on profits. Or the profit figures, which seem to have a will of their own, could fool everyone again...