Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were unwieldy. Ensemble was generally bad, and the orchestra rarely got below a non-commital mezzo volume which sapped the climaxes of their drama and surprise. The typically aloof wind section was adamantly sharp throughout, as if they were under no obligation to listen to the strings. In spite of difficulty in the high register, the upper strings produced a rich sound when they decided to play together as a section. But in their big moment, at the beginning of the third movement, the 'cellos didn't soar--they wilted...
...concert opened with the Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in D minor. A reduced HRO was ripieno--perhaps not reduced enough, since the string sound was still too lush for the style of the piece. In spite of numbers, however, the texture was clean and transparent; the violins showed good sectional discipline and accomplished exhilarating effects of terrace dynamics. Violin soloists Edgar Engelman and Marilyn Malpass had just enough brilliance and energy for Vivaldi and were effective in spite of some nervousness. 'Cellist, Martha Babcock handled her part efficiently, but was dry and weak compared to the others...
...moving unmistakably upward. Housing, the great industrial invalid of 1966, has begun to recuperate (see following story). Retail sales have revived, partly because of an early Easter and strong March department-store sales but mostly because the U.S. consumer has replenished his savings and is spending again. Unemployment, in spite of a dip in the factory work week, has failed to increase, and, in the most reassuring indication of all, Ackley pointed out that "we have been encouraged by the apparent speed of the inventory adjustment, with accumulation actually falling to zero in February." The latest of the leading indicators...
...Sister, My Love is a not entirely sunny picture of life in medieval Sweden. Brothers seduce sisters; sisters marry out of spite. Powerful aristocrats intimidate less powerful ones, and all aristocrats intimidate the peasantry. Clergymen go wenching...
...romantic mood of Louis' paintings has a atrong kinship with the lyrical, misty spacelessness of the late paintings by Monet. In the Water Lilies, Monet produced a rhapsodic mood of ethereal spacelessness by painting abstract surfaces in which continuously changing relationships of form and color exist for themselves, in spite of some vestigial remains of subject-matter. The rich, almost voluptuous, color of the Louis paintings and the organic growth of the forms have more in common with Art Nouveau. Gauguin's rich palette and his gently curving patterns immediately come to mind. Louis' forms also suggest some affinity...