Word: agitato
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prays only for God to give him work. Son Harry wins 22 quid on horse race and gets a girl into trouble. Unable to subsist as a human being on her meagre wages, Sally Hardcastle (Wendy Hiller) snatches a few rewarding moment; out on a Lancashire heath with an agitato named Larry (Brandon Peters). When Larry is killed in an unemployed riot, Salb makes her final adjustment to a pitiless environment by becoming the "housekeeper" of a paunchy bookmaker named Sam Grundy. In the season's most eloquent tagline, Henry Hardcastle then sums up the hopelessness of the whole...
...tucked sleeves and red velvet bows on both her shoulders.* She made her jerky little bow, hopped up on the piano stool, stretched for the pedals and sturdily began Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Her tone was clear and singing, her energy heroic as she swept into the Presto Agitato. To Mozart's A Major Sonata she brought little grace. But for most of the afternoon young Ruth was in might-&-main mood, sweeping the keyboard with glittering arpeggios, pounding out tremendous chords. Knowing that she usually likes to keep on playing, hundreds of listeners rushed forward...
Larghetto espressive--Allegretto agitato...