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"To be funny," the late Gertrude Stein wrote, "you have to take everything in the kitchen and put it on the floor." Just about everything from the U.S.'s historical kitchen was on the stage last week at Columbia University; whatever was missing (such as a pinch of salt...
Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio, Opus 45, has extraordinary strength and spaciousness of sonority to widen this composer's usual sphere of unfiled phantasmagoria. It taxes the strings, quite successfully, to the hilt, with truncated, screeching tremolos, portamentos, and sounds produced with the back of the bow. But the more...
Whether the composer adhered in this one movement Trio to the twelve-tone system or strict atonality seems no longer relevant, for this system is essentially something that merely schematizes a texture common to a variety of chromatic music written today. Chromaticism is merely one of several formulae conducive to...
What makes a radio plug pay off? After a four-year analysis of the selling power of spot commercials in 250 advertising campaigns, Chicago Adman William Ballinger figured out a precise formula: 1) mention the product name at least seven times every 15 seconds during the commercial; 2) repeat the...
Middle-aged cinemaddicts enjoyed a pleasant flashback to the windblown-bob era. Clara Bow, now a rancher's wife and mother of two, made a brief comeback, of a sort. Handsomer to the camera's eye than she was in the blowsy 20s, the onetime "It" Girl regained...