Word: wool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eight hours of Orff is simply too much!" The speaker, a tall, lank-haired man in tweed jacket and maroon wool shirt, was none other than rehearsal-weary Carl Orff, Germany's most famed modern composer. Hours, or even minutes, of Orff have indeed often proved too much for some tradition-minded audiences in Europe and the U.S. But last week crowds were thronging to the Stuttgart Opera House for a solid week of Composer Orff's works, including his latest: Oedipus der Tyrann, a highly individual dissertation on the Sophocles tragedy...
...results could make a cardiac case out of a cuttlefish. In Rock du Coeur, the heart thuds (behind an electric guitar, a clavichord and drums) like a bass fiddle muffled in cotton wool. In Cha-Cha du Coeur, the heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by whispered "cha cha chas." The effect on the listener, noted France-Soir, was to create "a kind of obsession, almost anxiety." But Paris cats were buying the record briskly last week, and other record makers are sure to approach Model Guillenette with stethoscopes in hand; nobody, she said...
...Larraona has been teaching, writing and lecturing in Rome for 40 years, where he has held a number of posts in the Curia. As the first Claretian cardinal in history, he will be permitted by his order to change his brown robes for scarlet, provided that they are of wool...
...Richard Korn, featured Marimbist Chenoweth as soloist. A small woman (5 ft. 2 in.), she seemed dwarfed by her instrument-a 6-ft. tablelike frame supporting a graduated series of hardwood strips with a row of tubular resonators attached. But when she started to flail away with both wool and rubber-tipped mallets, Marimbist Chenoweth proved herself a virtuoso. Scampering from one end of the instrument to the other, she produced flurries of bell-like tones in a surprising dynamic range. As for the piece itself, it proved to be tuneful, crisply rhythmic, shot through with jazz echoes...
Uncorseted Bliss. German-Jewish Papa Stein was a wool merchant, and some would argue that Gertrude was, too. As a baby, Gertrude, wrote her mother, was "a little Schnatterer. She talks all day long and repeats everything that is said or done." At Radcliffe, Gertrude became Philosopher William James's favorite Schnatterer and roamed the classrooms in uncorseted bliss ("She always seemed to like her own fat," a friend later said). She also experimented in what came to be known as automatic writing. This may have inspired her incantatory rhythms and inane repetitions, though Author Brinnin bristles...