Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They had. Knussen is only 15. He began his First Symphony just before his 14th birthday and finished it six months later. What impressed the public, critics and professionals alike was the symphony's bold self-assurance, its thoroughly contemporary sound and free use of serial techniques, its lack of conscious imitation-even though it does contain a few friendly pokes at Mahler and Messiaen, "who," says the youngster, "use the cymbal, bass and drum in a vulgar...
...them. In the case of Simon & Garfunkel, however, no amount of cockiness can obscure the fact that what was there at 22-when they began-is still there four years later, and in widening dimensions. The latest to discover this are those who have heard S. & G. sing the sound-track themes from Mike Nichols' The Graduate. To their sur prise, they have found that rock can be enjoyed without the fever required to fly with the Jefferson Airplane, slam with the Doors, or whip with the Cream...
Obviously, it is. Their record albums have sold 3,000,000 copies in a little over three years, and their Graduate sound track, released in March, shot quickly to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart, where it sits stubbornly in happy alienation from its competitors...
...distract and turn a running fish by twanging the taut line with their fingers; if the fish persists in running, they must rev up their boat engines and give chase, trying to retrieve enough line to get the fish back under control. A heavy fish that chooses to sound deep instead of run is even tougher: the fisherman either has to wait it out or attempt to "plane" the fish to the surface, by tightening the drag on his line right to the breaking point, running the boat rapidly forward and back in hopes, generally futile, of starting the fish...
...that it consists of all work and no play. The dancers pound the floor boards like maniacal trip hammers. Sweat glazes the hero as his arms flail, his eyes pop, and he tries to kick his toes into the wings. To amplify the hollow book, microphones soup up the sound till it becomes the aural equivalent of the medieval ordeal by fire. George M!-the latest of the Broadway season's unbroken string of execrable musicals-qualifies on all counts...