Word: gongli
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...through the Nietzschean revelation that "God is dead" to the Sartrean discovery of the absurdity of existence. Albee adds that man creates God in his own image, a profundity he presumably shares with many sophomores, past and present. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wool)? rang with the brassy gong of reality; Tiny Alice is a tinny allegory...
...Packers and the New York Giants v. the Detroit Lions in a pro-football "doubleheader." The games are mere preseason exhibitions-the kind of practice scrimmage that no one used to notice. But now pro football is growing so wildly popular that no one can wait for the official gong. Many games are sellouts, and those who can't get in see it all on TV. What's more, the fans hardly even care that it isn't the real McCoy...
...scream, a distant moan. The chorus is a clamor of wails-"the rats, the rats." Trombones trail down the declining moan of an air-raid siren, and the orchestra shrieks in echoed despair. In a long, fatal moment, the music dies on the slowly fading tremor of a gong. And in that long moment last week, a hushed audience at London's Royal Festival Hall perceived the chilling profundity of Roberto Gerhard's The Plague, an oratorio of terror based on the novel by Albert Camus...
...Concerto seems to savor each instant, in a continued series of "Now! Now! Now!" At times, striking combinations of timbres stand out: for example, the violin, the large gong, and an open, bottom C on the cello; or again the celeste, Violin, and the clarinet. At other times, the solo violin and cello luxuriate in close and shifting harmonies. Elsewhere, Kirchner indulges in bombastic percussion: a fast run in the clarinet or strings leads to a bang...
...WITH SOUND-Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. Synesthetic creations by 27 modern artists titillate both eye and ear with a clattering symphony including Chryssa's Boozooki, Bruce Connor's Tick Took Jelly Clock Cosmotron, Allan d'Arcangelo's Metronomes, Richard Stankiewicz' Storm Gong, George Ortman's Heartbeat, Alexander Calder's Three Gongs And Red, Man Ray's Indestructible Object, Robert Rauschenberg's Dry Cell, Jean Tinguely's Radio Drawing. Through...