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...minute symphony for string orchestra is a reworking of Corigliano's String Quartet of 1996. In five movements, its "arch-form" is influenced by Bartok's fourth quartet, in which pairs of movements (one and five, two and four) are related, while the middle movement "night music" stands on its own. Furthermore, as Corigliano wrote in the program notes, "the symphony is based upon a motto composed of even repetitions of a single tone, and a sequence of disjunct minor thirds. There are also four pitch centers recurring throughout the work: C, C-sharp, G and G-sharp." These elements...
...EMERSON QUARTET, SHOSTAKOVICH STRING QUARTETS: Shostakovich turned Stalin's Great Terror into art in his 15 string quartets, a laceratingly vivid document interpreted here by America's greatest quartet...
...opinions he was never more vociferous than when he was declaiming about the Beatles. The loud cacophony produced by this new quartet was fractured mosaic to his ears. Not only were they talentless and tuneless, he would say, they were transient. "Zey vill never last!" he cried. "Zey make noise and zen zey are forgotten...
...southern Democrat. Not a bad start. If Nunn says no, Bush might turn to Paul Wolfowitz, a very conservative former Reagan defense official, for Defense. If Nunn says yes, Wolfowitz may go to the CIA, and then Bush could announce all four at once - something for everyone in that quartet...
...homosexuality to kleptomania and just last week, after Hillary Clinton's election, sniped that "maybe lightning will strike" before she can claim her seat. But others see the sunny, impeccably dressed man with the smooth basso voice who charms his colleagues by performing a capella with the Singing Senators quartet...