Word: motifs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precisely. "I have to disappoint at first," he confided to his journal. "I want to be as though newborn, knowing absolutely nothing about Europe; ignoring facts and fashions, to be almost primitive. Then I want to do something very modest, to work out by myself a tiny, formal motif, one that my pencil will be able to encompass without any technique . . . Pictures will more than fill the whole of my lifetime ... it is less a matter of will than of fate...
...Episodes of space travel are by no means rare in the imaginings of the mentally ill," says Plank. Equally symptomatic is the "last man" motif, in which all mankind has been annihilated save for one individual-or, more productively, a fertile couple, "Far from being a byproduct of atomic fission," Plank contends, this theme goes back to Greek mythology and "grows from the fertile soil of unconscious drives." Such standard schizophrenic symptoms as delusions of grandeur, of persecution, and of superhuman influence are science-fiction staples...
...first of the ten movements is a prayer for eternal peace, full of heartfelt sighs and dazzling sunbursts. The second (Dies Irae) begins with an insistent, plodding motif in the chorus, building up to a breakoff point when the four brass bands join in. At the work's first performance (so Berlioz claimed), the conductor stopped at that point and had a pinch of snuff, while Berlioz himself leaped to the podium to save the performance. Conductor Munch last week took no chance on faulty entrances, had his warning arm pointing straight toward heaven four bars ahead. The brass...
...career. Throughout the act, a gold spotlight is trained on Lucasta, which not only gives her hair the same golden hue as Mary Magdalene's was supposed to have, but which also symbolizes the money which the gluttonous Lucasta is demanding. In the second act, the red motif has disappeared from Lucasta's clothes and the gold spotlight is used only intermittently. Confronted by the love of the Christ-figure, Colby Simpkins, Lucasta breaks down and confesses the story of her past. Like Mary Magdalene, Lucasta has a noble father, but has lived a loose, selfish life which...
...could from five in the Pastoral which was performed immediately before the Piston work. One of the most interesting features of the Trio is its experimentation with the colors which can be attained by fast and soft figurations in the flute and clarinet with the bassoon playing a melodic motif above them. Professor Piston was on hand to share the generous applause with the three instrumentalists...