Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brasses, sinks to a series of restless, enervated whispers. Percussive and rhythmically complex throughout, it is scored sparely, skillfully using small instrumental combinations in strange, exhilarating blends of sound. What sets it apart from much of the desiccated twelve-tone music of the Viennese school is its sense of passion: Dallapiccola, however his music may suffer, always seems to care...
...news that Klytaemnestra had been struck down. But the performance also was a reminder that Elektra no longer has the almost physical shock value it possessed in Strauss's time: overlaying the stark story is a thin coat ing of German Gemütlichkeit that too often turns passion to mere posturing. What redeemed the Met's Elektra was a splen did job of conducting by Joseph Rosenstock and the singing of Soprano Borkh, who rose triumphantly over the raging orchestra with rich, ringing power...
...Houses and a moratorium on the expansion of the College has sounded. Both the sounders (the House Masters) and the reasons (overcrowding) have become familiar to the weary residents of Cambridge during the last seven years. Yet the familiarity of the trumpet's notes has neither diminished the passion that they always arouse nor explained to the layman the significance of the most prolonged controversy in President Pusey's tenure...
...ambiguity was deliberate. It recognized that a strong faction of the Faculty opposed taking into account the idea that $82.5 million could be raised considerably easier if people linked it with the problems of the growing college population. But the uncertainty probably also increased the passion of the contending parties...
...Reader's Guide to Literary Terms, by Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz. With scholarship and scholars' wit, the authors offer all one cares to know and possibly a bit more about Anacreontic, Transferred Epithets, Inscape, Parnassianism, Pastorals, Passion Plays or Pastiche...