Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waterfall, or music heard so deeply...
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music...
...from the electric power companies. Lately, son Tachito has been cut in on the gravy. He got a 40% share in a new airline hauling mining machinery from the U.S. and meat to Cuba. When a Nicaraguan worked up a profitable new business shipping monkeys to the U.S., Tachito heard about it. Now a Somoza is in monkey business...
...heard a story ("partly true") of a group of Jews, marked to die in a Nazi gas chamber, who, with their powerful singing of the Shema Jisroel (Hear, 0 Israel), had unnerved, then frenzied, their executioners into bludgeoning them to death. Schoenberg fashioned a text for a cantata, with a sole survivor as narrator, then poured out the music in three weeks ("Oh, yes, I compose very fast...
Said optimistic Conductor Frederick: "This reception indicates that Schoenberg may become a popular composer." But Composer Schoenberg himself was more realistic: "I make a great difference between success and popularity. To become popular with serious music, one needs time. It must be heard oftener...