Word: mar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aspect of the composition was guided by the forms of the series-the sixes, the quadrilaterals, the triangles . . . The listener has to get down and look up through the series, so to speak." Scored for a moderate-sized orchestra and piano (expertly played at the première by Mar-grit Weber), the piece has no continuity in the normal sense. A lean, nervous composition, it proceeds in jagged skips and jumps. Its impetus derives from its rhythms-crotchety, erratic and often as arresting as a movie played at constantly shifting speeds. "One does not find it a memorable experience...
...Exciting '60-." Although high wages make Canadian goods hard to export and new trading blocs, e.g., the Common Mar ket, may force Canada to rely even more heavily on U.S. buying, the richness of Canadian resources ensures long-range prosperity. By 1970, one government commission estimated Canada should have a population of 21 million and a gross national product of $50 billion v. 1959's $34.5 billion. The "surprising '50s," pre dicts Banker Ashforth, "should be succeeded by the exciting...