Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picketers ran into sharp, vocal hostility in the attempt to stir up sympathy for their cause. Marching down Massachusetts Avenue towards the Square, they met with cries from Wigglesworth Hall of "Go back to Moscow...
...Antoine de Saint Exupéry. During the war Dallapiccola went into hiding in the mountains to protect his Jewish wife from the German forces in Italy. Since the war, his reputation has steadily grown as he has added to his small body of work a number of impressive vocal compositions: Five Fragments from Sappho for Voice and Chamber Orchestra, Five Songs for Baritone, Two Anacreon Songs and Requiescat (set to words by St. Matthew, Oscar Wilde and James Joyce...
Dissatisfaction is most vocal in the ranks of the small middle class. In a letter to the Salazar government last week, 39 doctors, lawyers and writers said that the seizure of the Santa Maria "accentuates the deplorable conditions of our political life." They also complained that they had not yet received an answer to the Nov. 11 letter, signed by 275 professional men, which asked for increased political freedom and hinted that aging Dictator Salazar, 71, should retire...
...Roman general Lucullus, for admission to the Elysian fields before a jury of citizens. Although it had several appealing orchestral passages and at least one rousing chorus, the opera for the most part is in what Sessions calls his "linear and severe" mood, with many of the vocal parts written in droning monotone...
...overnight success. ("Come, dears," wrote a society columnist. "You will hear wonderful things.") But there were grumblings even then that Romeo and Juliet was a curious hybrid-neither symphony nor oratorio nor opera. What Berlioz was aiming for was a new amalgam of symphony and opera in which vocal solos, choral and instrumental passages were mixed in loosely linked episodes. In Berlioz' musical shorthand, some moments of highest passion-the passages between Romeo and Juliet-are left to the orchestra alone because it offered "a richer, more varied, less limited language" than would have been possible with words...