Word: stream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collection of special creams and pastes and an electric buffer, which he brandishes like a weapon. He knows all the kitchen gadgets, cleans up the dishes, measures his vodka martinis by eye. Barbara's passion is a special wrapping room with ribbon and paper holders for the endless stream of birthdays that confront them. The walls and tables of the house are covered with paintings and photographs of family and historic White House moments. There is even a Frank Sinatra primitive painting of the Washington Monument. It's all so far from Pennsylvania Avenue...
...describing his composition "Surrendering to the Stream", premiered by the Mendelssohn String Quartet last Friday night at Paine Hall, David Horne referred to it as "a highly programmatic work in which the four members of the quartet were different' characters.'" These different characters emerged through the medium of each work the group performed...
David Horne's work "Surrendering to the Stream" was affectingly performed as well. Although the players sometimes seemed to suffer from the stiltedness endemic to contemporary performers' interpretations of recently-written music, their performance was, for the most part, sympathetic to the composition. While some works based on specific poems or material extraneous to the work rely on intellectual interest for their appeal, requiring that the listener decipher the thematic "content" of each phrase, "Surrendering to the Stream" depends for its success primarily on its purely aural beauty. Commencing with a lone low cello note, the piece progresses to reveal...
This island has sustained a steady stream of tourists since pre-colonial times, when explorer Bartholomew Gosnold named it for his mother Martha. The island has been a family spot ever since...
...stream of supportive telephone calls remains on par with those of years past...