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...connected. There is nothing particularly cerebral in his style. Little is said. The same applies to the Canons. There-part canon at the unison or octave is difficult to write, since the harmonies during the imitations are somewhat limited to those implicit in the statements. The problem of gaining tonal variety is hardly met in Austin's canons; their only virtue is smooth voice writing...
...hoping for a man to come along before she gets "broad in the beam and saggy"; first Pluto catches her, then is talked out of his catch by a fast-singing stranger who turns out to be Apollo, who is himself caught. The music is neat and attractive, tonal but shifty in the English folksong-arrangement tradition...
...concert by the Harvard and Radcliffe Choral Groups was their best of the year. For a program divided between madrigals and modern works, G. Wallace Woodworth used only the small choruses from each group, numbering around 60. The reduction in quantity of singers brought about a sizable improvement in tonal quality, especially in the delicate madrigals...
Well-knit Work. The rippling second movement gave no clear idea of tonal home base, but it developed a comic effect as it progressed through subtly different rhythms. The third movement, again in pensive tempo, gave the soloist another long melody that breathed nostalgically of twilight among ruins, then let it sigh into a noontime atmosphere with a passage in octaves, then into a recitative of murmurous beauty, where Oistrakh's instrument spoke in unevenly repeated notes. The solo cadenza started with simple triads in different keys, then confronted them with each other in a clashing dissonance, then became...
...depths of an interrogation cell-is always baffled by language difficulties. The two biggest Communist nations expropriated the language of Tolstoy and Confucius, and interpreters are available. But who will interpret the language of Marxism, which presents problems more complex than the conjugation of a Russian verb or the tonal inflections of Mandarin? That many-splendored monolith, world Communism, is, in fact, a monoglot, whatever national form its utterance takes; it aspires to give a new frame for human thought...