Word: understatedness
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Some composers challenge posterity with a roar. Others woo it with seductive languor or graceful wit. Austrian Composer Anton Webern conjured it with a whisper. A shy, intense man who physically shrank from noise, he wrote spare, slight pieces filled with directions like "scarcely audible" and "dying away." Such was...
CHAUSSON: SYMPHONY IN B FLAT MAJOR; FRANCK: LES EOLIDES (London). Ernest Chausson was a slow, self-doubting composer who shunned large undertakings, and is best known for his minor songs. The symphony form, he complained, caused him endless anxiety: "It is lively but not very much so, being somber and...
Barbara Ferris manages her ultimate put-down with a nice poignancy, and Werner plays the self-indulgent artist with the insouciance of a Habsburg bastard. Virginia Maskell, who died last January, is exceptionally beautiful and understated in the thankless role of the wife who is called upon to ask her...
Nixon learned other lessons from his joust with John Kennedy, and he is cannily applying them to his primary battles against Michigan's George Romney. The former Vice President's campaign to date in New Hampshire and Wisconsin has been relaxed and understated, designed to encourage the image...
For the History Department, his sharp eye for graduate students and his awesome reputation among history departments around the world made him invaluable. For students, his informal yet dignified manner, his understated sense of humor, and his kindness exemplified Harvard at its best. Though a man of style and wit...