Word: heightening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hendrix and Joplin legends satisfy precisely this fascination, and a whole school of films has capitalized upon this by exploiting rock's ability to suspend and heighten experience. Monterey Pop, Woodstock and Gimme Shelter use the camera to merely broadcast and reproduce the excitement generated by the music and the performers themselves. Rock and film sometimes mesh as neatly as bass and lead guitar. Gimme Shelter is at its best when the colored lights play over Jagger's body, and the Stones possess the stage. Offstage, without the protection of its excellent music, it grows tiresome...
...security measures only serve to heighten a growing sense of frustration with city life at Harvard. Students were always aware of Harvard's proximity to Cambridge's dirty streets and smelly air, but somehow crime and violence appeared only in newspapers...
...security measures only serve to heighten a growing sense of frustration with city life at Harvard. Students were always aware of Harvard's proximity to Cambridge's dirty streets and smelly air, but somehow crime and violence appeared only in newspapers...
...Golani Brigade, began maneuvers in the occupied Golan Heights of Syria. A military spokesman said that the maneuvers had been planned for some time. But in Washington, which had been counseling Israel to show restraint, some Administration officials feared that Israel's militant presence near the border might heighten tensions and increase the danger of a bigger Middle East explosion...
...trumpet music performed by versatile Trumpeter Schwarz. The Sonata by Davies, who also composed the opera Taverner, is sequential but melodic. Composer Dlugozewski, who studied with Varese, employs a variety of mutes and experimental techniques without sacrificing emotional content. Composer Hellerman, a Columbia University faculty member, utilizes tape to heighten musical tension and not merely as a sound effect. In his performance, Schwarz gives us swooping glissandi, a simultaneous playing and singing technique, and he stretches the trumpet range to an incredible 4/2 octaves-a feat that is in itself worth the price of the record...