Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GHOST OF WAGNER has rightfully been forced to abdicate his position as supreme arbiter of musical taste. "Compromise" theories on the performance of early music, thinly disguising a rampant romanticism, are no longer acceptable. Increasingly, aesthetic balance in musical performance--appropriate instruments and style of execution for each period and composer and respect for the intrinsic value of the music, rather than the luscious effects which may be superimposed thereupon--is the rule rather than the exception. For Baroque works in particular, such balanced performance requires the skillful proportionment of elements which, to the twentieth-century musical mind, often seem...
...Stadium. But he didn't expect it would be quite like this. "Where do they get these characters" he asked his roommate who was much worldher in such matters than he "Oh, they dredge them up from the alumni register", he was told sardonically. "It's the ghost of Harvard past...
...Rome has the highest municipal debt in Italy, around $3 billion: it is in effect bankrupt. And the deterioration of antica Roma is only one in a series of revelations of decay in Italy's most famous monuments that have popped up, like Banquo's ghost, to alarm conservationists this summer...
...holding the infant girl. But why was everybody gathered at the city hall instead of the local church? Why was the deputy mayor, in his tricolor sash, presiding instead of a priest with his stole? The ceremony was in fact a "republican baptism." Instead of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the baby was christened in the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity...
...route to Jerusalem "to be an actor-singer-dancer. It is written that the agent Morris awaits me." His father, an elderly party in clerical garb and a white beard, also walks the earth, meting out violent punishment in the best traditions of the Old Testament. The Holy Ghost, a fellow wearing a bed sheet, flaps after him, grousing "You'll never know what I could do 'cause you never give me a chance...