Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of discussing technical questions, Stassen had handed Zorin an informal working paper which detailed a highly tentative U.S. proposal for setting up zones of aerial inspection, one of which included Western Europe. When British and French diplomats-to say nothing of the apprehensive West Germans-heard of this, they were quick to file complaints...
...composer, he has been both a popular success and a daring musical explorer, both a commercial artist unafraid of writing for money on assignment (e.g., his Tango for piano solo, his elephants' polka for the Ringling Brothers Circus) and yet an uncompromising individualist. Says Impresario Lincoln Kirstein: "He heard first for us all. Sounds he has found or invented, however strange or forbidding at the outset, have become domesticated in our ears...
Wild Rhythms. In his early works, Firebird and Petrouchka, he galvanized and repelled his audiences with wild rhythms, brutal harmonies, and kaleidoscopic tone coloring of a kind they had never heard or imagined before. The Rite of Spring unleashed a cacophony of sound that set its first Paris audience to pummeling one another with fists and canes. But within a mere ten years all three works were becoming accepted in the contemporary musical language, and Stravinsky boldly moved on to a new, dry, precisely turned style-Pulcinella, Oedipus Rex, Apollon Musagetes-that had little relation to the earlier, gaudily splashed...
...years. Berlioz was anxious in The Trojans to restore pure song to first place in opera, and he succeeded magnificently. The work is studded with lovely arias bathed in richly hued orchestration. The musical theme that runs through the opera is the broad pomp-and-circumstantial Trojan March, first heard with ironic overtones as the Trojans, tired of Cassandra's doom-singing, drag the horse into the city; then brassily as they arrive at Carthage; and again with a touch of moody irony as they board the ships for "Roma, Roma, city eternal...
...began to hear more from Alexander Meiklejohn. Under the benevolent eyes of the University of Wisconsin's new president, Glenn Frank, he set up a two-year experimental college for men at the university that promised to sweep away all sorts of cherished traditions. The students-all volunteers-heard no formal lectures, got no grades, took no examinations. Instead of studying separate subjects, each isolated from the others, they steeped themselves in a study of Athens' golden age their first year, U.S. industrial civilization the next. The whole idea was to bring all branches of knowledge to bear...