Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis of this system is the row--the twelve tones of the tempered scale set in a particular order by the composer. Once he picks a row, he can manipulate it in countless ways and at the same time avoid any suggestion of tonality, since each note is equal, i.e. none of them is emphasized as tonality emphasizes its main tone, its resting point. A substantial part of the system's appeal to composers lies in its highly organized nature: the destruction of the complex system of tonal relations seems to demand another complicated set of rules. Schoenberg, the twelvetone...
...more optimistic note, James R. Reynolds '23, Director of the Program For Harvard College, stated that the Program would be "perfectly willing" to accept donations of this nature, although the University "has never solicited the annuity type of gift in the past...
Pack the Meeting. What the "four heads" might agree on was the subject of lively fears, but not much optimism. President Eisenhower, after a first reading of the latest Soviet note, hazarded that there might be some "lessening of the rigidity" of the Kremlin's line...
Flag for Burning. That afternoon, ten minutes after Chargé d'Affaires Wymberley Coerr (the embassy is between ambassadors) returned from delivering a note to the Foreign Ministry stating the U.S. position that there was "no evidence" that the statement was ever made, the demonstrators were back again. They were joined by a noisy, violence-bent band of Trotskyites,† Communists and left-wing rabble-rousers of the government National Revolutionary Movement. (A big banner demanded the establishment of diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R.) They burned the carefully hoarded copies of TIME on the doorstep of the seven-story...
...string section has become more solid, and the intonation continues to improve. The main faults are an over-weighty bass, and a tendency to lose intensity on the sustained notes. A less pronounced and biting attack on each note would have supplied a smoother legato, particularly in the opening Purcell Overture, which was otherwise very satisfactory in tone...