Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call for alto flute, xylorymba, vibraphone, guitar, viola, and several exotic percussion instruments. Four of the nine sections are settings of surrealistic poetry by Rene Char; the contralto Margery MacKay displays here an engagingly warm and sensuous voice. Practically all of the music moves at a furious tempo; this speed, coupled with the wide intervals and the high register of the instruments makes the specific pitch of each note difficult to grasp. This is also the case with Stockhausen, as Robert Craft points out: "For example, we hear a high, loud, staccato note in the oboe; that it is high...
...Marteau one recognizes Boulez' individuality; it is far from being merely French Webern played at high speed. Many listeners will be charmed by the piece--few will be charmed by Zeitmasse ("Tempo"), for woodwind quintet (with English horn substituted for horn). Where Boulez is witty and Gallic, Stockhausen is ponderous and Teutonic. The piece is based on an exceedingly complicated schedule of ratios, educations, and formula borrowed from the forbidding world of electronic music. What the uninitiated listener hears is a strange web of sound, frequently frightening and dense as all five instruments sweep from one extreme of their range...
TIME Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin set something of a speed record with his portrait of John XXIII. He began painting the minute he heard the news, worked through the night, finished the next morning, in good time for the picture to be flown from his Connecticut studio to the engraving and printing plant in Chicago...
...Speed on End Runs...
Princeton has plenty of speed with which to run the ends, too, even without Dan Sachs, its starting tailback at the beginning of the season...