Essential Experiences * Feeling the spray on your face as the pump boat skims across the waves.
Composed for large orchestra and eight amplified vocalists, Sinfonia's middle movement is one of the essential experiences of post-war music.
In this absorbing and important book, Tough explains why American children from both ends of the socioeconomic spectrum are missing out on these essential experiences.
Indeed, part of what makes Beckett's plays vital is the way they boil down essential experiences — birth, death, even the act of watching the play — into such condensed and exquisite packages.
Generous holidays are essential for children, and if Gove cannot remember, or worse still, never had, these essential experiences and cannot see his duty to protect them, we are in unsafe hands.
His influence and authority, even now, twenty-one years after his death, far outshine his name recognition, but his music remains among the essential experiences and representations of his times.
