Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears a bit too secure for a little girl who just got off the bus from Allentown. Pa. Finally, Bibi Osterwald brings a certain spunky energy to a rather cardboard character of singing coach. Unfortunately, despite the fine performances, this production is still plagued by some technical difficulties with sound and music levels, but such problems no doubt will be worked out soon...
...APPLAUSE following Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky's final Faculty Meeting as Dean was still echoing in the halls of University Hall last week, when the sound of fresh clapping broke out-Rosovsky reaching over to give a mightly slap to Harvard's collective educational back. In his tenth and penultimate annual report released last week. Rosovsky sizes up the state of educational at Harvard. And he thinks it looks pretty good...
Baldly summarized, Wilson's work can sound arbitrary and pretentious. But far from being a melange of odds and sods, the CIVIL warS is a tightly knit, carefully planned work that uses visual, verbal and musical images the way Wagner used leitmotivs: to unify and clarify complex relationships among ideas and to weave of his various strands a single tapestry. The tree of the first "knee play" is transformed into the astronauts' ladder and finally into the oaken Lincoln of the last act. The detritus of war - the toppling bodies of mortally stricken soldiers, the bombed-out city...
...music ranges from the unexpectedly relaxed, New Orleans-style brass band score for the Knee Plays, by David Byrne, who is best known as the aggressive lead singer for the progressive rock group Talking Heads, to the sound collages of Germany's Hans Peter Kuhn. At least one section, however, amounts to a full-fledged opera: Glass's Act V, from Rome...
Other examples in the chapter have a familiar sound, like a Harvard freshman's report of her poetry professor's repeated attempts to proposition her in and out of class in the spring...