Word: violas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more spirited than usual for these works. Simpson's cello playing was especially sensitive and powerful, coaxing a wonderful resonance from the instrument. When the fantasias are done by viols, the blend of sound can be excruciatingly monotonous. At the same time, there are advantages to original instruments: a viola da gamba's tuning is different from a cello's and the notes it plays on open strings can change the shading of tonality greatly...
...instrument of his zealotry. He exaggerated the domestic Communist menace while for years curiously neglecting organized crime. His men were swift to find the bodies of Andrew Goodman, James Chancy and Michael Schwerner after they were killed in Philadelphia, Miss., and to solve the Klan killing of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo in Alabama; yet they seemed slow otherwise to enforce the cause of civil rights. When Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that Southern FBI offices were unsympathetic to blacks, Hoover called him "the most notorious liar in the country...
...will have to sneak into the theater. "I have a horror of anyone I admire watching me act," says Mia. "I have made him promise not to let me know when he comes." Does this presage more footlights in her future? Well . . . "I'd love to play Viola in Twelfth Night and Strindberg's Miss Julie-and of course I must play Juliet...
...full-fledged undercover Government agent like Herbert Philbrick (/ Led Three Lives). As Philbrick's case suggests, the usually unsavory reputation of informers often vanishes if the cause seems especially just -or at least popular. The FBI'S hired hand who fingered the Ku Klux Klan killers of Viola Liuzzo generated considerably less controversy than Boyd Douglas...
...Telefunken recordings (SA WT 9059-10) of the J.S. Bach orchestral suites are a superb example of how musicological scholarship has radically transformed performance. Played by the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, the suites are led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, an excellent viola da gambist and brilliant musicologist...