Word: instrument
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...tonal music. In many areas Webern took Schoenberg's innovations and carried them to logical extremes. When Schoenberg dissolved traditional tonality but continued to work with late Romantic forms, Webern dissolved those too. He obliterated vertical harmonies, broke up melodies into one-or two-note fragments for each instrument and swept away all sense of development and climax. "Once stated," he said, "a theme has expressed all it has to say." In Five Pieces for orchestra and Six Bagatelles for string quartet (both 1913), his notes are scattered like stars in the night sky: tiny fire points...
...political balance, and Georgia delegates aim to keep open minds. Or so insists Lawyer Irving Kaler, a Jewish liberal delegate who rebuilt the party's Atlanta machinery. "The convention atmosphere itself encourages you to consider very carefully," says Kaler, "You don't operate in a vacuum. Every instrument of public opinion is focused on you. If you wear a delegate badge, five people stop you before you can get across the hotel lobby, and every one of them asks, 'What are you gonna do?' In the whole convention process now, more and more influences are reaching...
...presumably cleared by the perjured testimony of their neighbors, are proven guilty by the camera. A newsreel filmed during the height of the mob violence containing the indelible record of their faces is presented in court. The scene is cathartic, as Lang presents the camera per se as an instrument of fate, the omniscient agent of grim truths. It is even more cathartic in its simplicity, for the concept of film-as-evidence recalls the very motives for the genesis of the medium, that of stopping time--freezing and thereby capturing an ever-undeniable reality...
...fourth disk of the album over to a delightful discussion of chamber music by Peter Ustinov. "A Walter Mitty as far as music is concerned," Ustinov gives his imitations of a flute ("With my long, pendulous upper lip, I do better without the flute") and bassoon ("a very romantic instrument"). His musical god is Mozart. Noting that in the composer's day chamber-music playing was as offhand as it is reverential today, Ustinov says: "Mozart provided the Muzak for the period. The Archbishop of Salzburg and other such philistines went on talking through the first performance of Eine...
...pyrotechnics the Who's songs are emphatically not crude jingles. Their music is intelligent and comes over best on a good stereo set. Nevertheless their show in person is equally a must. If for no other reason then for the instrument smashing...