Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were magnificent as well--sumptuous materials were used, and the sets could not possibly have been more elaborate. (There was a new, full scale set for each act, and the costumes changed accordingly.) And Liszt's music is powerful, with some of its most haunting moments coming in its quiet, lulling interludes...
...site. They say they got no response from either. (The sheriff's department says it didn't pursue Harris because no crime had been committed and the Browns wished to remain anonymous.) But in April 1998, Harris took his site offline, and life in the neighborhood seemed to quiet down...
...people who seem to have been wholly outmatched by their cold, manipulative son--Harris was not an unlikely candidate for suburban mayhem. In his childhood, moving with his family from Air Force bases in Ohio and Michigan and upstate New York, he was remembered fondly. "He was just a quiet boy trying to fit in," says Plattsburgh, N.Y., Little League coach Terry Condo. But at Columbine he preferred to stand apart from the crowd. Though the antidepressant Luvox was prescribed to keep his brain chemistry more or less in balance, he was capable of violent outbursts, slow-boil intimidation...
...Orff to Michael Jackson--working the audience and attempting to tone down the somber aura of classical music. In a sense, this effort to reach out to people who would otherwise normally not be exposed to classical music was commendable. Though it was sometimes hard to hear over the quiet buzz of audience chatter, especially with the acoustical downfalls of the athletic building, the casual concert setting could not detract from the magic of hearing a live professional orchestra...
...Orff to Michael Jackson--working the audience and attempting to tone down the somber aura of classical music. In a sense, this effort to reach out to people who would otherwise normally not be exposed to classical music was commendable. Though it was sometimes hard to hear over the quiet buzz of audience chatter, especially with the acoustical downfalls of the athletic building, the casual concert setting could not detract from the magic of hearing a live professional orchestra...