Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't pay and how you can make it pay, you've got a problem that will kill you," he says. "It's enough to work out something in music that will carry a little personal conviction. That is my aim-to create a personal idiom." To do it, Lees works steadily in his home in Hyattsville, Md., and at the moment, he is busy writing three works (including an oboe concerto) at once. Two days a week, he drives to Baltimore to teach composition at the Peabody Conservatory. That diversion pays him more in a month...
...structure looks as if you could buy it by the section and glue it together." Adds an other Manhattanite, Architect I. M. Pei: "The water in the courtyard is fine, very successful, but the building is not. Yama mass-produced a façade in the Gothic idiom...
...pages, and a hefty book review. All of the essays are about Jews and Judaism (although one was written by a Catholic, Michael Novak, and concerns itself with the problems he feels arise when a Catholic "encounters" a Jew), the short story has been cast in a specifically Jewish idiom (the involved mock-reminiscence practiced by Issac Bashevis Singer), and at least one of the poems has an announced Jewish theme (though, I confess, I think that without its title its professed Jewishness would undoubtedly have escaped me). But the play and book review--of E. H. Carr's What...
Throughout his career, Debussy ranted against the "rhetoric" and the "emphasis" that played so large a part in 19th century musical idiom. Clarity, precision, balance, proportion were the qualities he was trying for-and he achieved them so brilliantly that he became the great emancipator for a whole generation of composers. In his fascination with primary color, with pure emotion, he resembled the impressionist painters-Cezanne perhaps, or Monet. Debussy still surprises with his strange, exotic and otherworldly sound. Studied in fresh detail-in such books as British Musicologist Edward Lockspeiser's new biography, Debussy: His Life and Mind...
Despite urgings from Pennington, director Martin said he has no intention of changing the style of Gen Ed A. Martin said he felt it was important to continue the present system of allowing "each section man to use the idiom most congenial...