Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics last week, Ryan drafted a resolution, approved by 225 members, that declared: "The adversary system of the criminal courts is not the place to define abortion, to define viability or to define the moral issues of abortion. We must guard against local jurisdictions or vocal minorities imposing their ethical positions for medical care in family planning and abortion on patients or doctors who do not hold those positions." This was obviously a reference to the composition of the Boston jury that convicted Dr. Edelin: ten of the twelve jurors were Roman Catholics, and the Catholic...
...Vocal Amphibian. Nilsson admits to 56 years now. She had not sung Sieglinde, the mortal woman caught in the murderous shenanigans of the gods, since 1957, simply because even the most slow-witted impresario knows that casting her as Sieglinde is like taking a great passer and putting him on defense. Nilsson is the supernatural warrior Brunnhilde...
There were unnecessary doubts that she could "go back" to Sieglinde's gentler music. Like some fabulous Ring character, Nilsson is a kind of vocal amphibian who can exist in both past and present. At times there was an eerie suggestion that one was hearing the young Nilsson. In the famous first-act duet with Siegmund (Jon Vickers), she was translucid as a lover, exalted on learning that he is also her lost twin. Nilsson never makes a meaningless gesture. She touched Siegmund almost at once-tentative, exploring-like an emotionally blinded woman. After the first act there...
...contrast, F. John Adams's best performances at Harvard have been of the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance. He has always showed marvelous sensitivity to those flowing vocal lines and fluid rhythms. But he had some real problems in coping with the Mozart Mass. His right-hand-only style of conducting with a hammer-like delivery of each beat led to disconcerting accents on each quarter-note. Mozart's long phrases were broken up as the music chugged along...
Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel (Capitol). Ron stadt sheds her foxy Barbie doll image for an assertive straight forward approach that displays her vocal diversity. Besides Ronstadt's supersmash single You 're No Good, cuts include the title song by the talented Anna McGarrigle, and Paul Anka's It Doesn 't Matter Anymore...