Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alfred Deller, Counter-tenor, sings these works now usually sung by contraltos, but in Bach's day by boys. Deller has an amazingly pure voice, much like a child's in quality yet capable of handling the difficult Bach vocal line. He is accompanied by a small Baroque orchestra, and the combination is probably quite close to the music's original sound. The recording is difficult to appreciate on the first hearing, but the result is a wonderful kind of impersonal exaltation. (Bach Guild...
Rubinstein made his official debut in Berlin at the age of eleven, playing Mozart's A-Major Concerto (K. 488). Critics cheered, but today he rarely plays Mozart. "He is the greatest of them all-so clear, so pure. Today I am too clever, too knowing, no longer simple...
...object of drama were pure obscurity, Hugh Amory's The Bandeirantes could unquestionably be considered a modern masterpiece. The confusion in which the play wallows is due mostly to the language in which it was written. That language is English to be sure, but it is a political English filled with wild, though sometimes provocative images. I suppose the poet must have exercised some control over his imagery, and that he must have wanted to squeeze some concentrated extract of meaning out of his story when he decided to employ the type of speech he used. But his efforts were...
...Charles Sheeler, 72, learned painting from a flamboyant academician named William Merritt Chase, relearned it from looking at Piero della Francesca's art and practicing photography. Piero taught him that art needs no gestures, that it can be pure, precise and silent as a frozen birdbath and still live forever. Photography taught him, as he says, that "light is the great designer." He developed a "growing belief that pictures realistically conceived might have an underlying abstract structure." That belief did not become a certainty until middle age; once arrived at, it led him to do great things...
...find Oppenheimer disloyal, although the board, by a 2-1 vote, recommended his discharge from Government employment as a security risk. The transcript of the hearings clearly shows that Oppenheimer did have close ties to Communist movements from 1939 to 1942, that he did tell the F.B.I. a "pure fabrication" in 1943, and that he did continue to associate with people he had known were Communists. The board, however, found "no evidence of disloyalty" in any of Oppenheimer's actions and added that "an alternative recommendation would be possible if we were allowed to exercise mature practical judgment without...