Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wondrous sleepwalking scene, of which every phrase refers to some earlier line, Miss Nye does not get much below the surface. And we know from the Nurse that Lady Macbeth is so affected by the dread deeds she has done in darkness that she insists on having a light by her all the time. Miss Nye enters with a lamp, but she leaves it behind when she exits, whereas Lady Macbeth would never go back to her bed without her light. Miss Nye clearly needs to rethink the whole part from scratch...
...cares if Leon Kirchner did not phrase the last movement of the Mozart Eb major piano quartet as if it began on an upbeat? And what if Jaime Laredo did force a bit in the suite from Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat? And if the Schoenberg Suite Op. 29 is a little hard to take on first hearing, for petesake go listen to it again...
Some expressions are hard to punctuate. Take the phrase "How about that"; too sprightly for a plain ordinary . , it is sometimes too ironic to justify an ebullient ! . More often than not, isn't it really a question...
Quirky Evaluations. His evaluation of virtuoso performers is no less quirky. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz's "unvarying, mannered manipulation of melodic phrase [with] infinite gradations of tone is his one way of operating with every composer." On the other hand, Pianist Van Cliburn, who has taken some critical lumps in recent years, displays "disciplined mastery" and an "unfailing sense for note-to-note continuity of tone, tension and outline...
...Demands of Love. Author Mallet-Joris, 36, counts among her considerable gifts the ability to present believable male characters, an art that is beyond many women writers. She is also a master of the trenchant phrase: a businessman has an "Easter Island head stuck on a penguin body"; a cantankerous father "needs to see his son unhappy in order to love him." She is one of those rare writers who can create worlds that readers instantly accept. Love, and its demands, are what her novel is about. Man's only choice, she says, is to accept the demands...