Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leadership of conductor Michael Greenebaum. From an organizational standpoint alone, the cantata is a huge undertaking; Greenebaum succeeded in offering both a well-rehearsed ensemble and a measure of interpretive continuity. He was especially fortunate in soprano soloist Jean Lunn. To her customary refinement of diction and gifted insight into the music as a whole. But her singing and a few instrumental solos were the only high spots. The chorus sang with colorless tone and indifferent diction most of the time. Furthermore, Greenebaum made the texture bottom-heavy with a basso continue of four cellos, double bass, and bassoon...
...result was a fine, Old-World performance that rarely surged with excitement but was lovingly correct and sometimes glowed with insight. Most appealing moment: the slow movement of the Beethoven, in which the strings sang their melodies against trickling woodwinds. When it was over, the crowd shouted its approval, and the orchestra gave an encore: the Overture to Tannhduser. Von Karajan accepted a basket of chrysanthemums, plucked one and presented it to his concertmaster...
...newly-acquired Dylan Thomas manuscripts in Houghton Library to the published text of Sir John's Hill has been the magazine's most valuable critical contribution to date. In a short essay in the first issue, Audience editor Ralph Maud shows how the manuscripts give a new insight on Thomas' process of word choice in a few lines of the poem. His critical remarks are specifically directed and clearly stated, and the piece is of greater concrete value to Thomas scholarship than a more pretentious approach might allow...
...answers to the question, 'What is religion?' have come trippingly in the 20th century. It is a species of poetry (Santayana); it is a variety of shared experiences (Dewey); it is ethical culture; it is insight into man's nature. (The last is the view of a group that might be called 'Atheists for Niebuhr')." All these views, says White, have one thing in common: the desire "to avoid identifying religion with any claim to knowledge that might have to run the gauntlet of scientific test." Most contemporary thinkers want "to make religion fill...
...story: a young lawyer (played with his usual unspectacular competence by William Holden) is yanked back into the Navy and shipped to the Pacific as a carrier-based pilot flying Panther jets. His boss is an admirable admiral. In fact, the Old Man (played with fine flexibility and insight by Fredric March) is something of a St. Francis in shoulder-wigs, who watches over his flock of birdmen with loving care, and especially over Holden, who reminds him of a son he lost in World War II. In the end, nevertheless, the admiral has to send his boy to almost...