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...each exploratory scene, a spotlight flashes from above and shrill, discordant noise blares. Ba’al alone suffers these sensorial punishments or pangs of conscience. In time, the sounds amplify and the lights blind as Ba’al fully transforms into the destructor fathomed by the ballim...
...provide for a sense of gravity and struggle. The final movement, Allegro scorrevole (“flowing easily,” one of Carter’s favorite indications), is a lively and brilliantly orchestrated finale. The work ends with a lone, high A-flat in the piccolo, a shrill, satisfying conclusion...
...steadfastly refuse to last less than six or seven minutes, as with the “Love Rain (Suite),” which clocks in at 12 1/2 minutes. Scott’s talent and her connection with her audience are apparent, but the disc remains a little too shrill and insufficiently distinct from her first album to stand up to multiple listens...
...Democrats to oppose it. "Unless the President takes on Daschle, we will have paralysis, and voters won't be able to see distinctions," says a House G.O.P. leader. But Bush favors a softer approach: calling for a continuation of post-9/11 unity and bipartisanship, thereby making Daschle seem shrill and churlish. At the same time, Bush knows that his father's apparent blindness to the recession of 1991 negated his Gulf War triumph. So between now and his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, Bush will hold a series of public events designed to prove his empathy...
...Democrats to oppose it. "Unless the President takes on Daschle, we will have paralysis, and voters won't be able to see distinctions," says a House G.O.P. leader. But Bush favors a softer approach: calling for a continuation of post-9/11 unity and bipartisanship, thereby making Daschle seem shrill and churlish. At the same time, Bush knows that his father's apparent blindness to the recession of 1991 negated his Gulf War triumph. So between now and his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, Bush will hold a series of public events designed to prove his empathy...