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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Dodecaphonist Dallapiccola believes that his spiritual brother is James Joyce (he has read Ulysses eight times), Variations sounds more like a page out of Kafka. It opens with a funereal, ghostlike theme in the strings, erupts in a chilling shower of brasses, sinks to a series of restless, enervated whispers. Percussive and rhythmically complex throughout, it is scored sparely, skillfully using small instrumental combinations in strange, exhilarating blends of sound. What sets it apart from much of the desiccated twelve-tone music of the Viennese school is its sense of passion: Dallapiccola, however his music may suffer, always seems...
...Also included in the Northwestern program: the String Quartet No. 2 (1951), a serenely flowing, moderately dissonant work that rarely raises its voice above a grey, enervated note of despair; the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1956), whose stabbing, fragmented salvos of sound hit the listener like an icy shower...
...shower-taking, lawn-dousing, pool-splashing nation that casually consumes about 300 billion gallons of water a day, it seems curious that water should be a national defense problem...
...both campaign parties, the correspondents encountered similar (and classic) occupational hazards-scrambling for planes, trains and buses, filing stories from odd places at odder hours, seeking out the nearest shower and jiffy laundry. Both men move fast, Sidey and Meyers agree. "When the candidate stops speaking," says Meyers, "it's time to grab your typewriter and start fighting your way to the bus." Neither reporter had any complaint about the manner in which the press is treated: in each camp, speeches are mimeographed, planes chartered, reservations confirmed and wires dispatched with cool efficiency...
...outsiders, but known all too well to his coaches, is his knack for getting injured (ever so slightly but enough to be worrisome) in antics around the pool. He broke his toe on a trampoline before the 1959 Yale meet; he tore a toenail walking up steps to shower after winning his Olympic team berth...