Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance did not always sound as enraptured or inspiring as it might have. Of course, the brass in the familiar opening "Promenade" and "Gnomus" effectively blurted out the image of the exhibition and the composer's ambling from picture to picture. But until near the final "Hut on Fowl's Leg" and "Great Gate of Kiev," the performance seemed a bit weighted down and torpid in parts. The quick changes of mood in the "Promenades," with the horn, winds and violins heralding a new picture, were well enough evoked. But in certain spots, such as the high-pitched "Il Vecchio...
...darkened gallery, the gasses glow luminously in several different colors. Some of the pieces are eery enough to be in a science fiction movie. A whirring sound from the power supply competes with the flute music in the background...
...chords in the background. In the foreground our poor heroine pitiously bemoans as the barker comes to foreclose her mortgage and an Indian threatens her if she refuses to yield to his demands. Suddenly, clad like the true-blue forest ranger he is, our hero appears to save her. Sound like a scene from a silent movie anyone ever associated with it would rather forget? No, it's the storyline for Little Mary Sunshine, the operetta playing at South House this weekend...
...sound like perverse nostalgia to go hear such an old man, but for most What Is To Be Done readers, Goodman is beyond nostalgia. And the word is that Goodman plays with an ageless enthusiasm. The What Is To Be Done swing reporter got it from the source this summer. She heard Goodman play at Carnegie Hall, where he handled his clarinet like a greased weasel. His upbeat has not come down. His aging fans maybe did not get up and dance as legend says they did in the Thirties, but they did clap and stomp in their seats. Swing...
...globe is not always a ball. Domes have had a bad reputation for leaking, though manufacturers claim that this should be no problem if the home is finished by an expert roofer. They are apt to be noisy, since they usually have few of the interior partitions that muffle sound in a traditional structure. Fitting rectangular furniture into a round house also poses problems; many dome dwellers build in tubs, beds and cabinets shaped to fit the walls...