Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marteau, Boulez presents three poems through the voice (Bethany Beardslee) and comments on them instrumentally. In each of the nine movements, Boulez uses a different ensemble chosen from the voice, alto flute (Harvey Sollberger), viola (Jacob Glick), guitar (Stanley Silverman), vibraphone (Paul Price), xylophone (Raymond Desroches), and percussion (Max Neuhaus). The texture of the sound is always clear, sometimes shimmering, sometimes punctiform, and always changing. With the flexibility of tempi and timbre goes an obvious fixity of notes and rhythmic patterns; certain intervals and rhythmic groupings recur constantly. And with all this planning, with all this studied freedom, the work...
...publishing One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch the first novel of an obscure mathematics teacher and former Red Army officer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Released with the express permission of Premier Khrushchev, One Day is a powerful, often humorous account of life in Stalin's forced labor camps. Translator Max Hayward, among others, hailed the novel as a "literary masterpiece" when it was published in the West several months later...
There are five episodes in Love. The one from Italy is directed by Renzo (son of Roberto) Rossellini, the one from Germany by Marcel (son of Max) Ophuls, the one from Japan by Novelist Shintaro ("The Japanese Franç01s Sagan") Ishihara, the one from Poland by Andrzej (Ashes and Diamonds) Wajda. Wajda's work is keen and sardonic, but the episode from France, directed by François (Jules and Jim) Truffaut, makes the other three look sick sick sick. It is cruel, touching, funny. It is true to life at an age when life is true...
...Hollow Crown provides a right royal evening of dramatic readings by and about English royalty. Max Adrian is commanding and Dorothy Tutin lovely to look at. Engagement ends March...
...Max F. Perutz, co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has been named Dunham lecturer at the Medical School...