Word: organism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge audience filled almost all of the 1236 seats in Kresge Auditorium last Thursday for an organ recital by E. Power Biggs. This was the last of the 1958 series of Special Events in the Arts, sponsored jointly by the Harvard and M.I.T. summer schools for the past three years...
...expressed in these pages at that time still stands. For Biggs has not mended his ways. Avoiding all long legato lines, he plays everything in a jerky, jabbing fashion. His approach would be better suited to chopping ice or dicing carrots. One of the great virtues of the organ is its ability to sustain a tone indefinitely without losing strength; yet Biggs is reluctant to make use of the advantage, and quits even the last not of a phrase almost the instant it sounds...
...manual and pedal dexterity, however, is admirable. Except for the final number on Thursday's program, he played with great accuracy: there were fewer than a dozen slips of finger or toe--an unusually high batting average for an organ recital. Biggs chose to end with the celebrated Bach Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, which he has played thousands of times. Evidently he thought he knew it so well that it needed no advance brushing-up. The result was, to put it bluntly, a mess...
...small organ with numbered keys that correspond to a numbered score so the player does not have to read notes ("Anyone can play it in 90 seconds"). Price...
...Yugoslav journalists write what they wish? Simic stated that Borba, formerly a Party organ, presently enjoys a less formal relationship with the Party. Only major editorials must seek Party review...