Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade, Composer George Rochberg, 64, has been a point man in one of the bitterest musical skirmishes of the postwar era. With the appearance in 1972 of his Third String Quartet, a work at times frankly reminiscent of Beethoven and Mahler, Rochberg broke irrevocably from the dominant twelve-tone school of composition to write music that was more tuneful, more accessible and, in his opinion, more expressive. His apostasy puzzled and angered many of his colleagues, who felt that the tonal system used by the great classical and romantic composers was exhausted. "Why is George writing beautiful music?" Rochberg...
...resentful tone echoes Vargas Llosa novels in which Peru was often depicted as a parody society. Those books had powerful intentions, but they also had moments that recalled Peter De Vries' line about the writer who puts readers into a diving bell and takes them down three feet. Aunt Julia is an ingenious and delightful turnabout, a glass-bottom social comedy that offers some deep, dark perspectives to those who care to look down. -By R.Z. Sheppard...
...Aunt Julia and I watch in openmouthed amazement, by changing props and costumes Pedro Camacho transformed himself [into] an old lady, a beggar, a bigot, a cardinal... During this series of lightning-quick changes he kept talking, in a fervent tone of voice. 'And why shouldn't I have the right to become one with characters of my own creation, to resemble them? Who is there to stop me from having their noses, their hair, their frock coats as I describe them?' he said, exchanging a biretta for a meerschaum, the meerschaum for a duster...
...middle-aged Choubert is reading a newspaper and his wife Madeleine is darning socks. A knock on the door brings in a detective. Shyly he asks if Choubert knows a man named Mallot whose name ends either with a t or a d. Soon the questioning and the tone turn inquisitional...
...eloquent valedictory, the Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings? Instead of yet another oft-encountered romantic symphony, how about Austrian Composer Franz Schmidt's dark, troubled Fourth Symphony? Instead of one more go at Dvořák's "New World" Symphony, why not his exhilarating tone poem The Wood Dove...