Word: trios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning to the University, where he had been influenced further by the literary-classic trio of "Kitty," "Copey," and Bliss, Professor Whiting immersed himself in graduate work. He became an assistant and Tutor in English and attained the rank of full professor last December. The author of numerous books on Chaucer, his specialty, and dissertations on the proverb as an expression of folk thought, Professor Whiting looks on his lone venture in anthology work with horror. "I'll never do anything like that again," he says of his co-editorship of the College Survey of English Literature, which includes most...
...leading torch singer, rivaled only by the late Helen Morgan (with whom she once split top billing in the Follies). Coonskin-clad Yale students mobbed her, Broadway toasted her, Hollywood beckoned. She was the top singer in radio when a flap-eared stripling named Crosby was singing in a trio...
...three-day "Symposium on Music Criticism" moved well past the half-way mark with its two meetings yesterday, as the morning's trio of speeches brought up specific problems in music and led to a brisk discussion session in the afternoon...
Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio, Opus 45, has extraordinary strength and spaciousness of sonority to widen this composer's usual sphere of unfiled phantasmagoria. It taxes the strings, quite successfully, to the hilt, with truncated, screeching tremolos, portamentos, and sounds produced with the back of the bow. But the more familiar this listener becomes with Schoenberg's devices, the less is he able to be content with the sheer magnificent discoveries of sounds, and the more is he confirmed in his preconception that a work of art demands by nature a connecting tissue alien to Schoenberg's methods...
Whether the composer adhered in this one movement Trio to the twelve-tone system or strict atonality seems no longer relevant, for this system is essentially something that merely schematizes a texture common to a variety of chromatic music written today. Chromaticism is merely one of several formulae conducive to an additive set of interrupted expostulations. And what we have, then, is not one work of art, but several, minute fragmentary ones. Only at fleeting instances when Schoenberg suddenly gave symmetry to his expression did its mastery and genius drive home to this prejudiced listener...