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...Makrokosmos and the string quartet Black Angels, he combines a distinctive, flamboyant sense of instrumental color with a darkling imagination that results in some chillingly effective music. A Haunted Landscape employs an amplified piano and an exotic battery of more than 45 different percussion instruments to paint a vibrant picture of a ghostly landscape, whose desolation is heightened by a recurring set of string triads that float eerily by. One of the most startling of the new orchestral scores, A Haunted Landscape was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered last year...
...favor today, and its length (more than 70 minutes) can seem excessive. Still, Liszt's symphony, whose three movements depict Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, ought to rate high, not only for its often startling pictorialism, but for its technical skill as well. Conlon and his forces give it a vibrant reading...
...aglow with it. In the hands of architects, sculptors and even film directors, it is being put to complex and dazzling new uses. "Neon can be cool and elegant," says Paul Barrend, showroom manager of a Chicago neon workshop called Light & Space Design, "or it can be wild and vibrant. It calls attention...
...LOVE REAGAN. At the Portuguese parliament, the President laughed off another Communist walkout ("I'm sorry that some of the chairs on the left seem to be uncomfortable") and hailed the host country's eleven-year-old democracy. Said Reagan: "It is the democratic world that is flexible, vibrant and growing --bringing its people higher and higher standards of living even as freedom grows and deepens...
...Broadway revival of Frederick Lonsdale's 1923 Aren't We All?, part of the charm is a return to the heyday of drawing-room comedy and, for that matter, of drawing rooms. The chief pleasure is seeing Rex Harrison, 77, and Claudette Colbert, 81, apparently just as vibrant and elegant and, yes, young as when they became stars more than half a century ago. When, during their autumnal courtship, Harrison declares, "My age is 48," and Colbert responds that hers is 22, the laughter they evoke is indulgent, not disbelieving...