Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runs 60 minutes, and is easily Boulez's most ambitious composition to date, outstripping even his 1955 Le Marteait sans Maitre. Severely serial, the work begins with a crash and a delicate wash of impressionism, a mixture of Debussy and Webern. Much of it glitters with the percussive polka-dotting of pointillism; all of it is abstract, moving in tiers of timbres, skeletal in its economy. Like Stravinsky, Boulez treats the human voice instrumentally rather than vocally. Soprano Halina Lukomska copes expertly, though not easily, with a vocal line that soars and plunges from one extreme...
...were sufficiently slovenly to demand reopening the case. Kaiser claims some evidence that Sirhan stalked Kennedy on several occasions, once in a Pomona, Calif., restaurant two weeks before the assassination, at which time he was accompanied by a woman. Kaiser thinks she might have been "the girl in the polka-dot dress" whom witnesses claimed to have seen at the Ambassador Hotel on June...
...curious achievements of Russia's Moiseyev dance company, which opened its first U.S. tour in five years at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House this month, is to make folk dance seem almost aristocratic in spirit. What country commoners could ever attempt, let alone master, those split-second polka whirls and partner changes, those muscle-straining priziadkas done at trip-hammer speed, those leaping, Olympic-height splits? This is dancing performable only by a gifted few-a disciplined and rhythmic elite of superbly talented athletes...
There's a lot to be said between a white revolutionary and a black revolutionary. There's a lot to be said between a white, a black, a brown, a blue, a red, a green, or a polka-dot revolutionary, because the revolutionary is opposed to the ruling class who's the one who really maintains the warmongering, the one who really maintains the brutality and murder...
JACKSON: Well, God is gonna be black. Angels are gonna be polka-dot. Children will be flying airplanes. People will be walking around wearing air pollution masks. And big children, nine years old, will be engaging in sex on the corner...