Word: adagio
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...similar bands like the Academy of Ancient Music and the English Concert. In rehearsal, he leads his players with forceful gestures, cries of encouragement and vivid, running pictorial images that mirror the music's story. "It was only a passing shower," he tells the strings in the Fantastique's adagio. "Now you might live again . . . supposing she is with somebody else . . . you're exhausted . . . what Berlioz says about this part is that the drums define the silence...
Gilbert shaped the pastoralsounding second movement, marked Adagio, with exquisite care, and in the last two movements Loeb played octave and chordal passages with gusto: he had obviously prepared well. The audience, which filled only one-third of the hall, applauded heartily, and the ovation was well deserved...
minor sonata, Op. 5 (written when the composer was a mere 16 years old), recorded in 1982, Gould's incredibly clear playing is matched with appropriately fast tempos in the outer movements, and with a beautiful, singing melody line in the Adagio cantabile...
...Ballet production is currently touring North and South America, and Fonteyn agreed to do two Miami performances because it was not far from her home in Panama. Her initial entrance prompted enthusiastic applause from the house, and there was awe onstage as well. In the middle of the "Rose Adagio," Sherilyn Kennedy, who danced Aurora, curtsied with fitting grace and unusual reverence, presenting the past and forever queen of dance with four pink roses...
...precious gift and a malicious joke from God. The creature's name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-"Spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine Mozart!" as the play's Salieri, his contemporary and rival, calls him. "I had heard a voice of God," the Italian mutters after listening to a Mozart adagio, "and it was the voice of an obscene child!" Salieri carried a double curse: to appreciate beyond pain or pleasure Mozart's genius and to realize that his disease was incommunicable...