Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typically aloof wind section was adamantly sharp throughout, as if they were under no obligation to listen to the strings. In spite of difficulty in the high register, the upper strings produced a rich sound when they decided to play together as a section. But in their big moment, at the beginning of the third movement, the 'cellos didn't soar--they wilted...
...intense, epigrammatic twelve-tone style. There is a constant alternation of various solo instruments as the material reverberates from one timbre to another. The 'cello engages in running dialogue with the various soloists, remaining on equal footing with the instruments that happen to be playing at any given moment. Except for the fact that the 'cello plays more often than any other instrument, the work is more a concerto for orchestra than a vehicle for the 'cello...
...Brak, near Tel Aviv, 20,000 demonstrators in somber black coats and black hats paraded with banners proclaiming: "Don't cut us up." Posters inside synagogues in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa explained how to prevent hospital attendants from spiriting away the dead: "Stay beside the body every moment." Splashed in white paint across the road near Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center was the warning: "Barbaric autopsies must stop...
...John Tracy Clinic* points out that "we still haven't cracked the neural code that transmits messages from the hair cells to the hearing nerve below." The ear conceals other mysteries as well, and there is no surgical or other cure for rubella deafness at the moment. As far as doctors can tell, the child's hearing loss will get no worse-or better-throughout his life...
Kirst's ultimate message is even more unrelenting than that. He specifically places the German spirit beyond redemption: it is a beast, sleeping only between wars, that will stir at any moment to do murder again. Kirst's readers, who beyond any question of guilt or conscience enjoyed the appealing roguishness of Gunner Asch, may be disconcerted to discover that his creator considers Asch a myth. What is more, they may not agree with that view...