Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Asked about acting homework. Hughes replied, "What the process is, I've never been able to pinpoint exactly. I guess you can talk about the craft, but the actual process is just doing...
...generally excellent performances, recorded over a period of 41/2 years under Pierre Boulez's direction, feature the London Symphony Orchestra and such guest artists as Violinist Isaac Stern, Pianist Charles Rosen and the late Gregor Piatigorsky. They supplant in every way the pioneering complete Webern recorded by Robert Craft in the 1950s, also on Columbia. The postman may never whistle Webern's melodies, as Webern predicted. Many listeners may never get past what sounds cryptic and arid to them in his work. But these new discs show to what extent performers have mastered his difficult idiom...
...life. He demanded unusual expressive nuances from his players, especially in the pianissimo range; musicians joked that he had invented the pensato, a note so subtle that the per former only thought of it. His conductor's scores were meticulously diagrammed in various colors-road maps, as Robert Craft said, to perfect performances. But the price of perfection could be too high. In 1936, preparing the posthumous premiere of Berg's Violin Concerto, Webern covered only eight bars in two rehearsals. He had to withdraw in favor of a less exacting conductor...
Webern's whole life, Craft commented, was ''a search for the strongest, the most all-abiding rules.'' He believed that only in ''unprecedented shackles'' could ''complete freedom'' be found. He pursued the search in his lifelong veneration of Schoenberg, in his ardent religiosity and in his rigid domestic discipline, which included aligning the pencils on his desk according to length and color. He even carried it into the pages of Mein Kampf. Although Schoenberg and other Jewish colleagues were ostracized, although his own music was denounced...
...ministry, its alumni almost immediately began their historic association with public policy issues. William Stoughton of the class of 1650 was chief justice and prosecuter at Salem witchcraft trials, and a number of other alumni were heavily involved in the trials, including one who was hanged for witch-craft...