Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Similarities to Shostakovich also spread into the third movement, where a two-note third was the subject of extensive development. Isolated events in the winds, often based upon a motif of rolling scales up and down, set off punctuation in the brass and strings. At the tranquil end of the movement, the drumbeat returned with a soft flute trill. The wind soloists were all more than competent...
...Yellow Wallpaper has been transformed into an interesting yet obsolete medical case on display at the Loeb Ex this weekend. Director Sarah T. Stewart invites us to attend her "Tranquil Grove Series of Visiting Lecturers on depression." This particular session takes us into the 19th century to witness how Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell's "rest" treatment drives an independent-minded woman insane. But you better get your tickets now, seminars such as these fill up quickly...
Serenity, for instance. An idea easily entertained by Harvard folk, and then dropped when midterms arrive (last week being the most recent, painful example). But the monks and the residents of Dai Bosatsu live in a relatively serene state, buoyed by tranquil post-meditation moments and long yoga stretches...
Patti Cohenour, who has just returned from playing Christine with the Canadian National Company, is excellent in her role as the singer. The chemistry between Cohenour's tranquil Christine and Gray's stormy Phantom is perfect. These performances make this standard beauty and beast tale touching...
When the revolution erupted in 1917, Nicholas reacted with bizarre passivity. He abdicated and went quietly into exile in Tobolsk, relieved to have exchanged his gilded prison for a more tranquil confinement. But this soft-spoken autocrat, whose exquisite manners and flickering will had once led a courtier to describe him as "nodding tirelessly in opposite directions," was no match for the hard men of Bolshevism. Their fledgling regime, already embroiled in intramural disputes, was threatened by enemies on all sides, and they saw the Romanovs as both a potential threat and a trump card. From the relative comfort...