Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thomson's creative reputation today rests primarily on his operas -- notably the groundbreaking 1928 Four Saints in Three Acts, to a libretto by Gertrude Stein, and The Mother of Us All (1947) -- as well as on the 1928 Symphony on a Hymn Tune and the film score The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936). But the work that has long intrigued Thomson's admirers is his last opera, Lord Byron, which premiered at the Juilliard School...
...world makes better "chocolate" than Brigham's--you can still get their deliriously perfect pints in the grocery store--but clearly it was time for the shop to go. Too useful. Too in tune with the needs of students. In its place stands a university office building, and C'est Bon, which does a great job with French pastries and sandwiches, but just can't seem to get a grilled cheese right...
...what of Gorecki's other music? Is he just a one-tune wonder, or does he have more songs to sing? Two new CDs provide the answer. Koch Schwann has issued Symphony No. 1, "1959"; Choros I, a major work for string orchestra from 1964; and the brief Three Pieces in the Old Style (1963) for strings. From Elektra Nonesuch come two recent string quartets, Already It Is Dusk (No. 1) and Quasi una Fantasia (No. 2). The result is a fuller, rounder picture of an uncompromising modernist who just may be the Bruckner...
...services the feds buy every year is governed by rules that generally require centralized buying, in bulk, and after many approvals (an average of 23 signatures on each government printing order, by one calculation). That system may have had some advantages in the 1940s, but it is out of tune with modern markets. Buying a computer, for example, takes about a year for a desktop model, up to three years for a mainframe. Employees at Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Atlanta and many other government offices complain that their computers are usually obsolete by the time they are finally delivered...
...Help Falling in Love, an infectious remake of Elvis Presley's 1961 hit, was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for the past seven weeks. Also in the Hot 100: Oh Carolina, by dancehall sensation Shaggy, and Bad Boys, a 1986 Inner Circle tune that has found new life as the theme song of the TV series Cops. Earlier this year, Twelve Inches of Snow, the debut album by the Canadian singer Snow, became the first reggae record to top the U.S. pop-music charts, and it stayed there for eight weeks. Billboard, acknowledging reggae...