Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part because of such encounters, some members of the delegation remained unalterably opposed to military aid for either Cambodia or South Viet Nam. In Phnom-Penh, New York Democratic Representative Bella Abzug, long a vocal opponent of U.S. involvement in Indochina, remarked: "I'm concerned about the humanitarian situation, the kids' bellies. The military situation was lost long ago." Minnesota Democrat Donald Fraser was more explicit: "In my judgment, the only thing we can do is help arrange for the orderly transfer of power to the [Khmer] insurgents...
...body. It took nine years, and a court order, for that act to be implemented in Boston's school system. Now Boston has Phase One, the school desergregation plan implemented by Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity. While national attention focuses on Boston's busing problems, local politicians court its vocal anti-busing segment and the Boston School Committee sees itself as the embattled defender of alienated rights...
...again using as a baton distinguishes her from the rest of the cast. Gratto, the director, is seated in the semicircle with the chorus. She is filling in for several sopranos who are out with the flu and she makes up with gusto and expression whatever she lacks in vocal range...
Krag is responsible for the music--vocal and instrumental--and Gratto is responsible for the blocking, the acting and the overall production. There is a lot of give and take between the two women. Krag often looks to Gratto for her opinion if not for advice. At this stage it is the petty details that keep causing problems--should the chorus sing "can't" or "can't," "humbly beg and humbly sue" or "soo." Each alternative is discussed, sung by the chorus and decided upon. When Krag admonishes the chorus to sing. "They are men of fight ha! ha!" louder...
Died. Luigi Dallapiccola, 71, Italian twelve-tone composer; of heart disease; in Florence. In 1939, Dallapiccola adopted Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic method of composing and with it produced complex, passionate vocal and instrumental music in which he tried to express Europe's suffering. He became known in the U.S. through such well-received works as his opera The Prisoner, and his several stints as instructor in composition at Tanglewood. Mass., and elsewhere...