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...took him a year and a half to complete a 17-minute composition. The result has many of the qualities of twelve-tone music by the late Anton von Webern, tends to make its listeners giggle at first, but then to be come absorbed in the fantastic world of unheard-of sound...
Tito made a trainside speech about "our fates being inseparable," despite the fact of "something unheard of and tragic" having taken place in the recent past. He expressed the profound conviction that "nothing of the kind will ever happen again between the two countries marching along the path of Marx, Engels and Lenin." No one mentioned the name of Stalin. Afterwards, to the sound of loud speakers blaring Yugoslav folk songs and the cheers of tens of thousands of Russian onlookers, ex-Traitor Tito drove through Moscow to the Kremlin and then to Spiridonovka Palace, official residence...
Despite her brogue, Barker learned, Bridey had shamefully mispronounced Irish words (like the name Sean, which she insisted on pronouncing See-an instead of Shawn), and larded her story with American idioms unheard-of in Ireland, e.g., her hair was "real red," she got an "awful spanking...
...miles of roads, brought water to thousands of acres of reclaimed land through dam and irrigation projects, replaced his native Salonika's ancient cobblestone streets with asphalt. On inspection trips he often sat down with the work gangs and shared their cheese and olives. What was even more unheard of, he clamped down on contractors, docked them if they delayed construction beyond their contracted completion date, threatened with jail those who tried to get away with shoddy materials...
Margaret Harshaw will leave nothing unheard Sunday afternoon at Symphony Hall in a solo concert. 3:30 p.m. Tickets still available...