Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leave aside questions about freedom," MacLeish said. "All the present facilities will stand there for organizations to do anything they want." He added that the Loeb should be regarded as simply another facility...
...overture to Il Re Pastore (K. 208) by the 19-year-old-Mozart opened the program, and the orchestra played this delectable trifle crisply enough, though the same strings that were so impressive in the Bach sounded rather thin here. Even early Mozart can stand a good 25 violins. But Mr. Harbison has done good work with his players, making their attacks sharp, their rhythm excellent, and even raising the level of intonation. There is reason to expect more good things from the orchestra...
...including stereo. The job was done with a specially hired orchestra of Los Angeles musicians in a hall not far from Bruno Walter's home. There, day after day over a span of six months, the old man led his men in the performances that he hopes will stand as "a kind of testament to the feeling I have for Beethoven...
...result is a seven-disk set of remarkable clarity, in which the various elements of the orchestra stand forth in superbly wrought detail. In the comparatively calm air of the early symphonies and of the Pastoral, the orchestra sings with a kind of warmth and lyric affection typical of Walter's musical vision. In the sterner period of the Seventh and Ninth, it takes on an incandescence and brilliance that elevate both performances to dazzling heights. Not all of the set is equally good, but all of it is imbued in some degree with Walter's ageless enthusiasm...
Away with Coffins. Spiraling ramps are not new in architecture. Assyrian King Sargon II wound a 6-ft. ramp around his 143-ft-tall Ziggurat at Khorsabad back in 706 B.C. What Wright did was avail himself of reinforced-concrete shell techniques to stand the structure on its narrower end, cantilever the floors inward, and top off the structure with glass, a material no ancient architect had to use on such a scale...