Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder of this sordid and symbolic tale is that it is suffused with compassion, heightened by the remarkable music Alban Berg wrote for it. The score, set in the tilted frame of nontonality, is carefully cast in a variety of classical musical forms: suite, passacaglia, sonata, fanatasie and fugue; scherzo, etc. The huge (113 instruments) orchestra sometimes bellows in brassy rages, sometimes shrieks in lines of shrill angularity, sometimes surprises with passages of softly breathing lyricism. The stark horror of the murder is conveyed in a howling, brassy crescendo in the orchestra that gives way abruptly to the tinselly tinkle...
...finally gave up his $200-a-week job with Bulova to become a regular member of the New York City Opera. MacNeil now specializes in Verdian roles, plans at last to learn Italian. "Once," he recalls ruefully, "I was singing Traviata and flung my hand out because the music felt like it. Then I was afraid to pull it back because I didn't know what my lines meant, so I just stood there with my hand stuck...
...Notre Dame). Roncom is wholly owned by the Como family, but sport-shirted Perry is rarely seen in the outfit's Park Avenue offices. His 33 full-time employees (soon to be expanded to 100) run his affairs, which include a TV-packaging subsidiary (Roncom TV Inc.) and music-publishing firm (Roncom Music Co.). Perry's amiable patter is written for him by TV's highly esteemed ($11,500 per show) Goodman Ace, who has three writers working with...
...Crew-cut Robert McDonnell, a 17-year-old senior at Maine Township high school in Park Ridge, Ill., earned a $4,000 fourth prize by measuring the heat given off by several chemical reactions involving graphite. He likes astronomy, chess, classical music and stamp collecting, wants to study particle and theoretical physics...
Born in Staffordshire, England, the son of the owner of England's first rubber-heel factory, Lieberson started his career by studying classical music after the family moved to the U.S., went to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. He composed everything from a symphony to pieces for a string quartet before deciding that a composer-at least of his caliber-"could not make a living in the U.S." He took a $50-a-week job with Columbia just a few months after CBS bought it. Later, as Director of Masterworks, Lieberson almost single-handed built up Columbia...