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When they are in Martinique, for example, Alice wants to visit the famous volcano that destroyed an entire city. Trill in, lagging, wheedles her into stopping at a restaurant called Le Colibri, to partake of their calalou des crabes. He rationalizes the detour both to himself and to a skeptic Alice...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Haute Cuisine Over Easy | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania, Crumb, 47, is a visionary who has shaken orchestration up in recent years with an ingenious knack for producing new sounds with old instruments and homely domestic objects. The grimly surrealistic Black Angels (1970), for example, was written for amplified string quartet and requires the players to trill with thimble-capped fingers and even to bow on crystal glasses tuned with water. Ancient Voices has certain mournful sounds produced by the bowing of a musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Star-Child: Innocence and Evil | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Your mind gets lost easily among these fifteen curious new worlds in which images free-associate and shapes warble and trill. It is entertainment that leaves you animated...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Animating Entertainment | 2/11/1976 | See Source »

...first movement, Allegro, was refined to the last trill. Communication between the members of the trio was heartfelt, but the blending of the piano, cello, and violin depended on where you sat. People on the right had trouble hearing Kogan, people in back, Ma, and people on the left, Chang. This mattered little in the second movement, which was the evening's highlight. A rush of applause and ovation cheered the trio for one of the most exciting performances at Harvard in many years...

Author: By Karen Hsiao, | Title: Trios | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

Lightning arpeggios bounce from clarinet to oboe. A perfectly articulated trill decorates a French horn solo. The musicianship is impeccable. But technics aside, the Dorian Quintet-the world's most active wind quintet-has several exceptional features: a completely booked calendar (75 concerts in 1973), a nearly six-figure collective income and an ample inventory of music to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Dorian Mode | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

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