Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound they produced was clean, relaxed, admirably unblurred. The music for the most part was richly ornamented, to take full advantage of the presence of 20 fingers on 88 keys. Demus and Badura-Skoda executed filigreed turns of Mozart, trickily syncopated rhythms of Hindemith, florid, zestful melodies of Schubert with a fine fluency and flair. Each throttled his individual sound, avoiding the pounding effect that often afflicts duo pianists playing on separate instruments...
...orchestra and six solo voices, in which Stravinsky utilizes for the first time all twelve tones of the tone-row technique that he recently adopted. Unrelievedly austere in mood, the work unfolds in a series of canons for two, three and four voices, choral chants, spare snatches of instrumental sound. Merely to cue the onstage forces properly was a tricky task, and Conductor Craft performed it brilliantly. Stabbing with a forefinger, lifting his shoulders in rhythmic shrugs, mouthing the Vulgate text in time with the singers, he shaped a performance of geometric clarity, suffused with a thoroughly moving...
...play soon sounds a strongly optimistic note with a stately, cymbal-punctuated procession behind Belshazzar's "comely" Queen ("She will bring forth the unknown prophet"), moves to a dramatic climax as Darius' soldiers march on Belshazzar's court. The remainder of the play traces Daniel's betrayal by Darius' advisers, his escape from the lions' den, his final vision of the time when the "holy one comes/The most holy of the holy," and an angel announces "Christ is born." One of the play's engaging qualities is its childlike mixture of varying emotions...
...downtown office, a block from Havana's Presidential Palace, Ruby cuts an enduring, familiar figure, togged in grey sweater, carmine blouse and blue slacks. Unruffled by habitual administrative alterations, most of them punctuated by gunfire, outside her green door, she occasionally makes a revolution sound like a Long Beach reunion of ex-Iowans. From her accounts (and other Times stories last week) the reader got little impression of the violent executions decreed by the Castro forces...
However, Dean Bender notes that the cost of deconversion "is small in relation to other increases we are blithly considering, such as tuition." He feels that the issues should not be decided on the basis of "a single economic factor," and adds, "I am all for extensive deconversion for sound educational reasons...