Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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At rehearsals, the two dozen members (mostly girls) sit in the back of the dreary supermarket on Second Avenue, singing instead of chattering like most teenagers, while Bernice Cole strolls around like a matronly cheerleader. She shouts and sings at them, molding a phrase, breaking up at a mistake, her...
The musical genius of France is something like a dream in the senses.
When it comes to Debussy's own compositions, most interpreters stress the dream more than the senses. They see Debussy's rejection of the robust rhetoric of 19th century Romantic music as part of a drift into a fantasy world. They render his refined, precisely shaded instrumental effects...
Conductor Pierre Boulez is trying to change all this. "Debussy performances are too much tied to this idea of elegance and sweetness," Boulez recently told TIME'S London correspondent, Christopher Porterfield. "To me, Debussy is more feline-the claws can suddenly come out and scratch you with a kind...
Out of the Mists. For several years now, Boulez, who will become music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1971, has been proving his point with a string of Debussy performances and recordings that are nothing less than revelatory. Without any loss of subtlety, he has brought Debussy out...