Word: serially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gunther Schuller's Five Bagatelles, sandwiched as they were between two chestnuts, could not help but be a musical gourmet's delight. Written in a disjunct, motivic style that borrows almost as much from jazz as from serial technique, they presented problems of cohesion and continuity similar to those of the Dallapiccola 'Cello Concerto performed by the HRO last spring. This time, however, the orchestra succeeded. Rather than struggling frantically through the notes, the players were in sufficient control of the music to interpret it and make it come alive...
...atheist Russia, a Bible story! After more than a quarter of a century of suppression, The Master and Margarita, by Soviet Novelist Mikhail Bulgakov, has surfaced as a magazine serial in Russia, and in two translations in the U.S. The full text is published by Harper & Row, and the cut-down Russian version by Grove Press. Doubtless the U.S. publishers are right in claiming that the novel is "the most talked-about literary work in Russia today." Bulgakov, who died in 1940, is officially described in the Soviet Encyclopaedia as "a slanderer of Soviet reality." The work...
Wonderland is at least aptly named. It is a haven for the eternal optimist, the guy who's been down so long it looks like up to him. A mechanic from Kentucky bets on dogs with girls' names. An old man goes through a complicated rigamarole with the serial number on a dollar bill to get his number. A haidresser's assistant visits a clairvoyant to get her bets for the week...
...Darmstadt courses opened in 1946 as refreshers for Hitler-frustrated German musicians who wanted to brush up on their Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith and Schoenberg. In succeeding years, Darmstadt focused on the development of serial techniques in Schoenberg and Webern, and gave exposure to the works of such post-serial experimenters as Edgar Varese and Olivier Messiaen. Soon younger composers-notably Hans Werner Henze and Pierre Boulez-began unveiling compositions of their own at the festival's semiprivate "workshop" concerts...
Under constant taunts from their captors, the artillerymen were forced to crawl, wallow in mud, hang by their legs from a horizontal bar, sit for seemingly endless minutes with their legs wrapped painfully around a pole. The guards badgered them for information beyond the maximum-name, rank and serial number-sanctioned by the Geneva Treaty. A sympathetic "Red Cross" representative tried to wheedle additional intelligence out of them, but most immediately spotted him as a phony...