Word: precisionism
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In Bold Relief. Last week the de Pasquale String Quartet made its Manhattan debut in Town Hall and all was sweet accord. Billed as the FIRST ALL-BROTHER QUARTET IN MUSICAL HISTORY, they were a trifle jittery in the opening Hayden Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, but soon found...
The program opened with the Men's Glee Club alone singing two Renaissance motets by Jacob Handl. A small soli chorus sang from the balcony; and, considering the difficulties that such division presents, the precision of the performance was laudable. The power that a men's Glee Club must have...
Prime Minister Wilson, an admirer of Warburg's modernizing influence in British banking, has taken Siegmund in as a close adviser. Warburg has shaken up what he calls the City's "ingenious sloppiness" by introducing Germanic organization and discipline; he even plots the seating at his business lunches...
In the fall of 1960, three roommates and themselves for some reason occupying a four-man suite in the brand-new Leverett Towers. Their three names, which each contained the same number of letters, were aligned with aesthetic precision in space on the door which had been designed for four...
Linguistics itself is the study of a lot of languages most people have never heard of, that are central to the development of some civilization. In a sense, the field stands about midway between mathematics and anthropology. The linguist studies the structure of a language with technics approaching mathematical precision...