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Three Pieces for string quartet by John Bavicchi exemplify music in this state of transition. They contain measures of unrelated, ugly chords; plunks and scrapes that communicate little; and involved counterpoint that moves convulsively yet musically gets nowhere. Such passages appear to be willful "modernizing," a stubborn and out-dated refusal to compromises between method and expression. But Bavicchi does create some powerful climaxes. The second piece is touchingly lyrical, recalling the best of his songs. Here the treatment is still dissonant, but it is dissonance that grows logically from the melodic line, and our sensibilities have long ceased...
Camouflaging his stubborn shyness with a businesslike air, he sat and examined the keyboard closely whenever the New York Philharmonic-Symphony played without him. As his entrances approached, he grew tense, and his body began to sway and jerk to the rhythm. But there was nothing jerky about his playing. From his crashing fanfares to his softly rippling passagework, his performance had the strength and luster of blue steel. When the music ended, there was a moment of silence before the crowd recovered itself enough to start cheering...
...famous Chafee-Sutherland letter, the authors urged reluctant witnesses to cooperate completely with Congressional committees, even when such cooperation was distasteful, as a matter of legal and ethical principle. They decried stubborn use of the Fifth Amendment as an excuse for silence...
...stone throne supported by a carved, crouching man shows the Andean fondness for working the most stubborn materials. It is further demonstrated by photographs of temples near Cuzco, 11,000 feet up. Built during Europe's Dark Ages, the temples were constructed of granite blocks weighing up to 50 tons each. No one knows how the blocks were heaved into place. Even more impressive is the fact that they were matched and fitted so precisely that a knife blade cannot be slipped between them...
...young Negro girl from a civil rights association maneuvers him into renting her a room in the Green Glade. As if on cue, the Jakes. Gils and Morrises, the banks and realtors all land on Harry: so do fragments of his own hotel tiles, loosened by an unfriendly hand. Stubborn Harry doesn't scare, but all he can salvage from his tiny, crumbling domain is a brief, implausible love affair with the Negro girl. Reverting to me-first principles, he sets fire to the Green Glade for the insurance, then, in a strangely selfless about-face, dashes into...