Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor G. Wallace Woodworth has done even more than bring before the University a musically sensitive and technically accomplished choral organization. Under his direction, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Ohoral Society, last Friday presented a concert which brought to life a musical idiom almost four centuries old. For two hours a capacity Sanders Theatre audience found itself immersed in the musical language of the "Golden Age" of choral music, and their repeated ovations made it clear that they found the experience both illuminating and thrilling...
...compositions written considerably after the sixteenth century were, in fact, performed, but the late Renaissance idiom so strongly pervaded the evening that I, for one, found myself judging these other works by 16th century standards. Thus Verdi's setting of Dante's Hymn to the Virgin Mary seemed maudlin after the more ethereal fervency of Palestrina. I do not know whether Verdi's melodramatic climaxes and sensuous cadences are inherently unsuited for religious music, but their operatic association have certainly made them so for me. Even Mozart did not fare well in such company, perhaps because the firmly established tonalities...
...premiere of two movements from a piano concerto composed by Joel Mandelbaum for the soloist, Ann Besser. The concerto is written in the same key (A) as two others performed on the program, the Liszt and the Schuman. And though Mr. Mandelbaum does not wholly shun the contemporary idiom, in spirit his work is much like those two showpieces of the Romantic era. Miss Besser's performance, by its technical perfection as well as its penetration of the music showed the work off to excellent advantage...
...also lagging: out of 800 compositions that the committee looked over, about one in five had five or more spelling mistakes. There were also 225 errors in tense, 103 "misplaced modifiers," 309 cases of awkward structure, 729 errors involving personal pronouns, and 1,000 mistakes in "word usage and idiom...
...unfamiliar atmosphere of respectability, Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky captures much of Crane's pungent idiom, and becomes a spry blend of gun-in-holster and tongue-in-cheek...