Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ELLIOTT CARTER: DOUBLE CONCERTO (Columbia). This terse, intensely cerebral score creates its stereophonic effect across the expanse of a normal concert stage, as two small orchestras, one centered around a harpsichord and the other around a piano-but both conducted by Frederik Prausnitz -toss questions and answers back and forth on some unnamed, obviously serious topic. The most striking musical effect is a slow, undulating, ill-tempered growl from the percussion toward the end of the piece that seems to sweep back and forth from one group to the other, murmuring imprecations at both...
GYORGY LIGETH LUX AETERNA (Deutsche Grammophon). Moviegoers may be familiar with Ligeti's score from its use in 2001: A Space Odyssey, where it accompanies the discovery of the monolith on the moon. The music is not conceived stereophonically but, like a clever piece of audible op art, achieves that effect from its dense-textured 16-part counterpoint, which seems to shimmer around its source in concentric waves. As an exercise in the deceptive qualities of pure sound, it is an awesome tour de force...
OLIVER is a treat-and a sumptuous one -for everyone in the family. Dickens' reformist zeal has been eliminated, but a good score, handsome sets, wizardly direction (by Carol Reed) and sprightly performances are ample compensation...
Suicide for political reasons is hardly a novel idea in Czechoslovakia. At least a score of Stalinist Party Boss Antonin Novotný's lieutenants took their own lives, usually by hanging, in the early days of Alexander Dubček's regime. Shortly after the Stalinist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948, the Communists announced that Wartime Leader Jan Masaryk, son of Tomás, had jumped out of a window-a claim that seemed credible to many Czechoslovaks despite evidence that he was pushed. Many of Palach's mourners compared him to Jan Hus, the 15th century...
...sold about 600,000 of the games. And then there is Bible Bowling, in which marbles are rolled down a miniature bowling alley into holes. Depending on what hole the marble lands in, a card 'is selected by the bowler, who must answer a biblical question to score points. Sample card: "For six pins on your first ball, who is Barabbas...