Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...libretto was ideal for a composer who retained a lifelong longing for the "green paradise of childhood." Ravel was determined that "the vocal line should dominate," and it does, against an orchestra as luminous as any Ravel ever created. Among the opera's more effective touches: a procession of shepherds and shepherdesses to a sinuous dance theme played by reed pipes and tambourines; the dizzying dance of the digits (Mon Dieu! c'est I'arithmetique!) to raucous and leering brasses...
...Ricordi is anxious to extend its profitable monopoly for another 20 years. As for Vaughan, he is looking ahead to an "artistic revolution." When the copyright expires, he hopes, the whole operatic orchestra will be tuned back to its proper volume, ridding the stage of the vocal athletes whose only distinction is the ability to shatter footlights at a dozen paces...
...dissatisfied with the offer (along with the customary six-figure salary, Chrysler's directors were offering three-year stock options that could be worth $1,500,000). What helped to scare them off was the determination of Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, 56, prime target of a vocal group of dissatisfied Chrysler stockholders, to stay on as Chrysler's chief executive officer until next year, when he hoped company finances would look better...
Britain has long had a vocal minority of unilateralists on the Left. In the atomic age, war to them seems senseless for any cause-even their own freedom-as is evidenced by their slogan, "I'd rather be Red than dead." Inevitably too, anti-German prejudice persists. In Swansea fortnight ago, 300 marchers demonstrated against the NATO plan to train West German Panzer units in Wales this fall. The real point-that the defense of Berlin is ultimately the defense of Britain-is only now beginning to dawn on the mass of Britons enjoying the summer...
...that end, said Miller, "the most important institution which can ever exist in this state or nation is the church of Jesus Christ-active, not asleep; courageous, not intimidated; vocal, not silent on sensitive matters; concerned with the whole of man's life-personal, family, business, community, national...