Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening of contemporary music. But new music is not the only road to innovative programming. There are scores of neglected works by masters great and small that deserve dusting off. Instead of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, for example, why not the equally seductive but infrequently heard tone poem, The Wood Dove? Instead of Beethoven's pawky Second Piano Concerto or the overplayed Violin Concerto of Mendelssohn, why not Rimsky-Korsakov's dashing Piano Concerto or Carl Nielsen's melancholic Violin Concerto? Instead of another Brahms' First Symphony, how about Joachim Raff's spooky "Lenore" Symphony, once greatly admired...
...centuries after Bach welded the twelve major and minor keys into a harmonious whole in The Well-Tempered Clavier, 185 years after Beethoven stretched the boundaries of the symphony with the "Eroica," and 65 years after Arnold Schoenberg exploded the tonal universe by unleashing the power of the twelve-tone system, classical music can still be a vital, potent art. But it needs a kind of panoramic energy, one that explores and prizes its past, frankly assesses its present and enthusiastically prepares for its future...
...headquarters of the American Association for Retired Persons and looks straight at the television camera. "AARP's 27 million members believe that together, we can make a difference," she says. "We'll make sure you know what the candidates say -- and what they don't say -- about issues." Her tone is sweetly reasonable. But just to make sure those video-dazed viewers in Iowa and New Hampshire sit up and listen, she shakes her spectacles at them and adds, "If you think you've seen it all, you ain't seen nothin...
...Hungry and Forgot His Manners, a novel that mugs New York while the city is still woozy from Wolfe's best-selling The Bonfire of the Vanities. Typically, Breslin is less concerned with the refinements of structure than with the shock effects of tabloid anecdote and an outraged moral tone. On the city's welfare system, for example: "The Poor are the most important people in New York, for their social welfare billions blow through the air for all the well-off to grab; where are the rich supposed to get their money from, the rich...
...however, does not keep him from rhapsodizing about an instrument he describes as an overgrown version of the xylophone, nor from doggedly pursuing his lonely calling. The New Jersey-born Stevens, 34, was first enchanted as a teenager by the distinctive sound of the marimba, the glowing, burnished, unpercussive tone that wafts from the four-plus-octave wooden instrument when it is struck with mallets. "I had never heard such a full and beautiful tone," recalls Stevens, who had been a high school rock drummer. "I could do all the rhythm things, and I also had melody...