Word: tonalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times. But to some sophisticated ears, it was only a skillfully composed travesty of religious sentimentality that plucked the heart strings but left the spirit untouched. Explained Bernstein, "I feel that it is my simplest and most direct composition. It's very difficult to write tonal music in this age of dodecaphonics, and I'm stuck with being a tonal composer...
...very few great violinists of our day." Said Michal Smoira, critic for Tel Aviv's Haaretz: "His ability and general knowledge of music are so superb and so extraordinary that his technique and manual ability are taken as a matter of course. Beyond all that, Perlman creates a tonal feeling which sings in the ear and shakes the soul...
...Resurrection's opening scene, Schweitzer (also director) mounts his camera on E. Savelyeva, who trundles down hundreds of yards of oppressively black corridors. The swaying field and the sharply subdued tonal range of blacks and dark greys continue for several long minutes. Abruptly, the corridor leads into daylight. The camera becomes stable, the greys turn brilliant white, and like the prisoner whose path we have been following, we are glad to be out of the aggravating dark, but able to adjust only slowly to the new light...
...Zelenka Sonata #2 for two oboes and continuo, a piece much superior to the standard baroque trio sonata, Marx and his brilliant student, Judith Martin, offered support for their tonal theories. Its second move movement, a double fugue, presents two themes quite different in character. Characteristically, when Marx introduced the second theme, far more lyrical than the first, he suddenly switched to a quiet singing tone. This constituted the finest moment of ensemble work, for Marx at other times overpowered Miss Martin, whose style of playing is generally more gentle and feminine. Had Marx, with his command of such varying...
CLEVE GRAY-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. A sensitive colorist, Gray smears his canvases with dark primaries and brilliant pastels, composing his abstractions with a sure feel for tonal balance and direction in space. Best: Vernal, a large dynamic treatment of vertical blues against white. Through...