Word: unison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hang in the arches on three sides of the tower. Chains attached to them extend to a control platform from which the principal player operates them. He controls the second and third largest bells with a foot lever connected by chains to the clappers. These bells are rung in unison with the big bell, giving a fundamental note which continues throughout the performance. The other bells must be adapted to this basic tone...
Twelve is kinder to his parents. Instead of openly telling a father he is too fat, a boy will simply exclaim: "What a physique!" He is also kinder to his teacher, but if a teacher is obviously unsure of herself, Twelves will begin hurling spitballs or coughing in unison. They are not much concerned about the afterlife: "They give the problem willingly over to the philosophers." But they are altruists and even sensitive to the feelings of others. "If he must step on adult toes," says Gesell, "he does so lightly, and may even deliberately choose the most pyschological moment...
...chorus, ably led by Richard Smithies. In this play the chorus functions not only as a group of commenting onlookers but also as Elders of Colonus who participate in the dialogue. The distribution of lines among them is wisely varied: they speak sometimes singly or by twos, sometimes in unison. The celebrated ode in praise of Colonus comes off especially well...
...unison, French Communists stood up in the National Assembly and cried, 150 voices strong: "Popular Front!" The other politicians in the divided Assembly, though they clapped their hands over their ears and refused to listen, could not entirely shut out the echoing, uncomfortable sound...
...program also included Puccini's Gloria Mass, a work written in the composer's student days. The music was decidedly uneven, containing fine lyrical passages such as a strong theme for unison chcorus at the words "et unam sanctam." Much of the music, however, sounded like an Italian version of second-rate Schubert. It was the piece's first and probably last Boston performance...