Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than sixty people turned out to hear the music of six Harvard composers at Paine Hall Monday night. This scant response was not, on the whole, warranted...
Frost chided poets who write to make readers read learned footnotes. Chaucer and Shakespeare, he noted, did not use them. He considered his own metaphors relatively simple, but urged readers to hear more than the "vowels, the consonants, and the syllables...
Anita O'Day has also made a LP of standards with arrangements by Buddy Bregman. Her rendition of "Honeysuckle Rose" is a classic, with only a Bass accompanying her for half the song. Bregman's other arrangements are run-of-the-mile, but it is nonetheless a pleasure to hear Anita take off on fine tunes like "I Can't Get Started" and "No Moon At All." (Verve...
...diverting attention from a far more important event: the gallant and tenacious resistance of Hungary's patriots, the most important revolt in 39 years of Communist rule. The fact that the whole nation rebelled could not be concealed, veiled, or transformed by slanders, and the entire world could hear the echoes of the savage repression. Even party comrades were repelled. Other satellites stirred. It was necessary to create new diversions. With a flourish of phrases ("faithful to its policy of ensuring peace") Radio Moscow announced that Russia was now "ready to examine" President Eisenhower's "open sky" aerial...
...music is all there, and what really matters is Schnabel's playing. To hear him is suddenly to see light across the generations that separate the composer from today; to be delighted at Schnabel's surprising methods of treating Beethoven's surprising turns of phrase; to laugh or sigh, sometimes almost to cower in fright. This playing has the kind of sanity that is expressed in one of Schnabel's provocative remarks. "Back around the turn of the century," he once said, "it became the idea that Beethoven's opening theme in the Fifth Symphony...