Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle," and "late," and illustrated many of the most typical features in the composer's development. In performing Opus 18, No. 5, the Quartet seemed particularly conscious of the movement's overall characters. The performers maintained drive throughout the entire first movement, including the quieter parts, and played the Minuet with delicacy and reserve, even in the few places marked forts. The familiar theme and variations brought out the amazing tone and balance of the group in pianissimo passenger such as the fourth variation, and the bouncing fifth variation illustrated the great exuberance that the calm-looking performers could convey...
From an observation tower, the Wildlifers watched the pair through telescopes. Yes, they assured one another hopefully, there was interest stirring. The great birds had been noted prancing a little and tossing their black-tipped wings in the air in the courtship minuet of the whooping cranes. The Wildlifers smiled like doting parents and waited...
...literally true, as Biographer James Parton wrote of him, that at 32, only months before he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson "could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play the violin...