1. Excitement fades to disillusionment, and so another piece of technology goes to gather dust on a storeroom shelf. 2. These pieces did not go unchallenged. 3. See this piece goes up? 4. Although the consortium knows roughly where each piece should go on its parent chromosome, it does not know exactly enough to place all the pieces in correct order. 5. Another big piece goes toward paying hospitals for patient bills they say they cannot collect, usually because the patients are poor and uninsured. 6. As these pieces go on display, they forge another link between the present and the past. 7. But no matter how much you dress it up, this slight and overly somber piece only goes to show that old-fashioned melodrama is a pan-cultural phenomenon. 8. But no piece of music goes on for long. 9. Desirable pieces go quickly, regardless of price. 10. Echoes of contemporaries accumulate as the piece goes along, with Stravinsky fighting Berg for center stage. |