Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from its tendency to jargon, the trouble with verbal music criticism, says Keller, is that it tends to describe musical forms but fails to penetrate beyond them to the "fundamental unity" at the heart of a composition. To lay music's "inner architecture" bare, the critic must abandon language ("The age of description is over") and so immerse himself in analysis of a work that he "lives with it and dreams about...
Vienna-born Critic Keller, 38, a violinist and teacher, wrote verbal criticism exclusively for years before he decided that words failed him. They simply created "unbearable divisions," he says, "between music critics and music lovers." His Mozart analysis was hailed by word-bound, cliche-tied British critics as "a most important departure." Keller is now working on an analysis of Beethoven's String Quartet, Opus 95. Says he: "Most of what passes for musical criticism today is sheer bunk; I think functional analysis will bring about the twilight of the twaddle." He is not disturbed by the thought that...
...local color, a working-class lingo, accents faithfully rendered by an all-Australian cast. As altogether honest work, it treats understandingly of believable people and of an odd patterning of human lives. But neither a fresh background nor a sound theme can give the play sufficient dramatic pressure or verbal leverage; if there are no false notes to the writing, there are no resonances or overtones either...
BROOKLYN, Jan. 21--Dodgers' vice-president Buzzie Bavasi today came to the defense of the 250-foot left field fence in the Los Angeles Coliseum and, at the same time, took a verbal swing at the complaining National League pitchers...
Ectoplasmic Uplift. Lerner deserves credit for recognizing, in disagreement with the Toynbee-esque patternmakers, that the U.S. is not merely a subdivision of Western civilization but, despite acknowledged Western roots, a truly new world under the sun. Yet this vision, like a few others, just barely flickers through the verbal fog banks. Readers who get as far as page 673 will sharply question Lerner's assertion that the U.S. is in a "moral interregnum," distrusting the old gods and uncertainly waiting for new ones, and that (page 947) America is on a descending arc of "inner social and moral...