Word: precisionism
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Each tune, e.g., The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, began with a fast, straightforward version of the melody, then, after a few' bars, swung into Peterson's impromptu variations - interlaced arabesques, rhythmical counterpoints, stream-of-consciousness insertions from other tunes-then back to the original melody. Throughout...
Drilled Transistor. The big trouble with transistors is that they are hard to mass-produce with sufficient accuracy. The tiny specks of germanium that are their essential parts must be made with extreme precision. Even with the best of workmanship, many finished transistors have to be rejected.
"Picnic," a technical triumph by playwright William Inge, sometimes swaps precision for honest emotion, but the production, with excellent acting by Janice Rule and Ralph Meeker, is uniformly effective.
"Ad Man Out," the Hasty Pudding's 106th production, is not going to need very much advertising of its own to pack the Pudding Playhouse from now until it goes on tour. It already bas an extremely clever book by John Benedict and Tom Whedon, funny, often hilarious lyrics by...
In a work like Dvorak's Fourth Symphony, precision is less important than flexibility and relaxation of tempi. The versatility of Burgin and his musicians made the potentially soggy score interesting from beginning to end. By deflating the rhetorical elements and stressing the more sincerely lyrical sections, Burgin kept the...