Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longest work, the haunting Cantata No. 2 for voices, choir and orchestra (1943), takes scarcely a quarter of an hour to perform. The shortest of his Three Small Pieces for Cello and Piano (1914) consists of nine measures. His Six Bagatelles for string quartet (1913) go by in an average of 40 seconds each-expressing, in the words of his mentor Arnold Schoenberg, ''a novel in a single gesture, joy in a single breath...
...work. But these new discs show to what extent performers have mastered his difficult idiom in the past two decades. Among the highlights: the feathery shading of Soprano HeatheR Harper's pitch in the early songs; the tensile, wire-sculpture precision of members of the Juilliard String Quartet in the String Trio (1927); the transparent textures and rhythmic subtlety of Boulez and the L.S.O. in Variations for Orchestra...
...rueful comedy about American students whose lives change dramatically during a year abroad. But this time the director is Huyck, not Lucas, and the results are deflating. French Postcards'comic anecdotes do not coalesce into a universal saga of postadolescence; they merely come across as a string of hit-and-miss jokes...
...first year club team, UPenn was denied a face-saving goal when the referee called back the scoring play on a questionable offsides call. Except for that shot, the Quakers hardly threatened the Bruins second-string squad...
Customers snapped up the entire stock of baggies at a string of exclusive boutiques in one week. Says Cuqui Carrillo of the Twenty-Four Collection: "Everyone is dying to get them...