Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continued this summer's Schumann cycle with the seldom-performed Piano Quartet (Op.47). The players attentively followed Weilerstein's expressive leadership in a lyrical reading that avoided histrionics. The string sound was beautifully blended, while Steven Finnerty soared through the luscious cello part with a big tone and impressive style...
...minor. One of only three chamber works by Weber, this piece changes mood rapidly, sometimes striving toward the darker musical depths, sometimes, as in the second movement, content to rely on an engaging dance-like tune. While Kogan showed a sensitive ability to vary his tone and style in response to the shifting demands of the music, flutist Laurel Zucker tended toward shrill, unsupported bursts of sound in the high register in trying to create big dramatic events, and cellist Kevin Plunkett, with gruff attacks and a hard-edged tone seemed unwilling to respond to the lyricism of the writing...
...kids are worshipping all night. The other 18 holes are flawless carpets. No off-balance tilts here--your ball goes where it is intended to. Furthermore, the mini-civilization which this 18-hole wonder slithers through is detailed and vast, set--appropriately in this Bicentennial year--in the colonial style of our forefathers. The Liberty Bell, Paul Revere's Ride, a Puritan Village--all these chapters of our history are arranged perfectly in order that we may knock golf balls through them. The price is steep--$2.50--but a miniature golf course this made-to-order is worth much more...
...Theory of Language." This is the essay that boasts ignorance as one of its chief virtues. It begins with "the Discovery That an Explanatory Theory Does Not Presently Exist," and concludes with, if not a theory, at least a suggestion of where to look. Percy's occasionally cloying personal style becomes suffocating in the essay, because his foray into serious linguistic analysis is so confidently off the mark. He believes firmly and sincerely that the naive simplicity of his arguments have been overlooked by linguists for years, tangled as they are in their convoluted transformational...
...best pitchers in the game. A few years ago, the Sex picked him upon waivers: Minnesota thought he was over the hill. It was a real aberration for the front office-a smart move, and Tiant has been a steady 20-game winner ever since. Luis has got style. Roger Angell of the New Yorker has called him "the archeologist" (because he picks up the ball and looks are it as if it were a fossil before he lets fly), and an early stage in his complex motion is a rhythmic shaking of the ball, in glove, shoving it down...