Word: tonally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Landscapes, by assistant professor of Music Allen Sapp, made fewer requirements of range, and the chorus responded with far more attention to details of tonal quality. Mr. Sapp is blessed with a poetic sense to match his extraordinary musical gifts. Taking five poems of T. S. Eliot, he has not merely assigned each syllable a note and made the work a straight declamation. Rather, he has readily displaced certain lines to enhance the lyrical effect...
Both reports agreed that G. David Schine's contribution as a "consultant" to McCarthy's Communist-hunting committee was negligible, and, therefore, as the Democratic report was at pains to emphasize, efforts to spring him from Army duty were unjustified. Both reports, despite their tonal distinctions, agreed that McCarthy himself was to blame for not putting the brakes on Roy Cohn's efforts to get favors for his friend Schine...
...must finally be made to submit to the law: Apollo demands it." he has written.) For the first time he has based complete movements and works upon a determined succession (or row) of tones; yet he does not necessarily use 12 tones in the row nor abandon a tonal center in the manner of Schoenberg...
...beautiful settings of the six love poems; however similar their techniques, Lamb is far more willing than Stravinsky to make melodic concessions to his listeners. The New Art Quintet of New York played the wind parts flawlessly, and bass-baritone Paul Matthen sang difficult vocal lines with assurance and tonal beauty...
...exciting climax. Jay Powers '56 performed Glazounov's Saxophone Concerto, a work whose chief merit is that it allowed Mr. Powers to prove the amazing finesse with which his instrument can be handled. Such a delicate treatment of the instrument seems to indicate the inherently limited compass of its tonal range. But the novel beauty of the effects produced and Mr. Powers dazzling agility banished any hint of monotony...