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...least taut: it breathes, and sometimes it hyperventilates. The songs are more spacious, giving Elvis more chances to pose, to mince a bit, and some of his vocals have a slurred, lolling quality, made creepy by strangely dissonant, disconnected back-up vocals. See him there, leaning against the piano, "trying to look Italian to the musical Valium," all hope gone. He's always been cynical, but his anger signaled hope; Trust is faith in nothing. This is some of his most "listenable" music, meaning that you can play it at parties without apologizing, you can listen to it in snatches...
...arrangement for piano trio of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, made in 1932 by Eduard Steuermann, emphasized in its piano writing Schoenberg's debt to Brahms. The piece is mainly a curiosity, for the piano can hardly compensate in either weight of tone or sustaining power for the missing quartet of strings. Jon Deak's Sinister Tremors (1977), for clarinet, percussion and tape, is more theatrical than Speculum's customary fare; at one point, a table containing pie tins, boards, broken glass and other objects is knocked over, simulating an avalanche...
...Chamber Ensemble and Da Capo Chamber Players-has been obvious. A decade ago, many professors were dismissing new music as a waste of time. Unorthodox techniques like multiphonics (the simultaneous production of more than one note on such normally single-toned instruments as the flute) or reaching into the piano to pluck its strings were considered irrelevant to Bach, Mozart and Brahms. Yet some of the teachers' most talented students were busy reading books like Bruno Bartolozzi's seminal New Sounds for Woodwind, published...
Benny enlists for World War II, as bombs drop and people dance to Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing." He plays a piano which remains in an otherwise demolished town and a German soldier arises from the rubble. Benny tries to soothe him with a German song. The soldier says "Danke" and proceeds to gun him down. Those nasty Krauts! Those poor, great musicians! Sigh! Gasp! Weep! Once again, comic book emotions don't jibe with the attempted realism...
...idea that it would have such an enormous effect on my life." Indeed, without that violin and the intensive lessons which followed its discovery, she probably would not have developed a serious committment to music, and would instead have remained "one of those kids who takes four years of piano and hated every minute of it." Certainly, she would not be about to become the Bach Society Orchestra's first female conductor...