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But the work is powerful not because its progressions are "surprising" but because these shifts seem natural--and even quite necessary. What Schoenberg has done is to integrate musical emotions which in much music are usually separated or opposed to each other. Most important of all, he has linked pensive...
The performance succeeded--superbly--in taking the listener thorugh this variety of situations. Judith Davidoff, cello, Tison Street, violin, and William Hibbard, viola, performed brilliantly the savage bowing Schoenberg demands and made no attempt to give the piece an artificial form. They did not have any trouble with the important...
The supreme four minutes and 25 seconds of thse albums are (of course) the trio's immortal "Shout." To the casual listener this is the greatest song ever recorded, but many aspects of its greatness are quite subtle. With the tenderness and power of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the...
At the 1960 presidential inauguration, blinking in the cold sunlight like Tiresias. the blind seer of old, he took a great bard's ancient place beside the spiritual and temporal princes of his world. The voice, as it was whenever he "said" his verses, seemed far from poetic-dry...
By and large, his public ignored the Frost who quarreled with the world. They knew and praised instead the Frost who was a praiser of country things-the joy in swinging birches or treading leaves, the ornery bite of a grindstone against an ax blade, the road not taken, those...