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...Ti-Covo AND His SHARK (235 pp.)-Clemenf Richer-Knopf...
...Harmonies. Where other composers were satisfied with the conventional scale of seven basic tones (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti), Schoenberg insisted on discarding "key" and exploring the potential scale of twelve tones (i.e., the full chromatic scale in an octave). The result hurt people's ears. "Just dissonance," they said, or, more simply, "Just noise." Schoenberg stuck to his guns, demanded the "emancipation of dissonance." Discords can become new harmonies, he said. He found a few disciples. The best known: Alban Berg, composer of the twelve-tone opera Wozzeck (TIME, April 23). New music, Schoenberg insisted, "must...
...first time he had gone to Dash-ti-Margo (Desert of Death) and discovered a dead city, forgotten by the modern world (TIME, Nov. 7, 1949). This time, accompanied by his bride of five days, Anthropologist Fairservis revisited the same mysterious area of southwest Afghanistan. Near the Bolan Pass, the expedition, came across its first big find: 36 sites which yielded pottery of a hitherto unknown type. On the bottom of many of the pieces were mysterious little signs, some 30 different ones, that look as if they might be the beginnings of an alphabet. Some of the sites, Fairservis...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TI...
...Ti-Coq (by Fridolin; produced by Fri-dolin Productions in association with Lee & J. J. Shubert) brought Canada's most popular comic to Broadway. Fridolin (real name: Gratien Gélinas) rose to fame through a series of revues (TIME, March 19, 1945), then wrote Ti-Coq, which he has performed-in French and English-for some 2½ years. A negligible play, it was a less than inspired vehicle, closed after three performances...