Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kirchner conducted the three cantatas with his peculiar blend of romanticism and objectivity. His own music displays a predilection for big chords and thick, lush sonorities, and this love of sound for its own sake carried over into his interpretation of the Bach. Kirchner demanded a full-bodied sound from his small ensemble. Occasionally his insistence backfired, as in the final chorus of "ewiges Feuer" (BWV 34) where the sopranos had to force and went noticably sharp. Most of the choruses were full of dramatic dynamic contrasts, crescendi and decrescendi. And Kirchner had no qualms about taking expressive liberties with...
John Wesley Harding is a satisfying album--mainly for Dylan's sake, because many of the songs are implicitly personal renunciations of the "narcotic of a subtle skepticism" that Pope Paul advised against in his Christmas plea for "Peace of Heart" in all men. Perhaps Dylan has found "Peace of Heart." And his record gives some hope to its listeners, a little strength of mind to face a grisly political milieu that threatens to overwhelm us. Cold comfort...
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. The man who sacrifices his personal life and family concerns for the sake of his public career is no recent phenomenon. In a play written 2,400 years ago, Euripides, the most psychologically oriented of the classical tragedians, inspects the poisoned crop that Agamemnon sowed and reaped when his addled ambitions to win the Trojan War led him to offer up the life of his own daughter. Michael Cacoyannis' adept direction gives modern force to an ancient tale...
Hayes recalled his prediction, made the night DeGuglielmo was fired, that "Heads will roll within two weeks." After charging Crane with conducting a "personal vendetta." Hayes introduced a motion to remove Dunphy "for his own sake...
...represents, in the words of Rabbi M. David Weiss of Boston, "a corruption of our national purpose." Stanford's Brown accuses the U.S. Gov ernment of telling American forces in Viet Nam, in effect, that "anything goes. All moral considerations are either subsidiary or suspended for the sake of military victory." Baptist Pastor Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, who only within the past year has joined the dissenters, says that "morally, it offends my sense of fair play to be beating the hell out of a small nation...