Word: allegro
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...first movement of the Symphony, an allegro, is skillful and delightful. Not surprisingly, it was written in a burst of inspiration; the other movements were constructed afterwards. The serene opening fills out into a vigorous and full-voiced movement. Mixing folk elements with the counterpoint studiously learned at the Leipzig Conservatory, Sullivan blends them with the brilliant orchestration technique that was praised in his earliest works and became such a trademark of the great Savoy operettas. The movement is all the more remarkable in view of the composer's age, twenty-four years at the time of its composition...
Philip Kerr, with long-flowing locks and rich red garb, looks the proper--or, rather, improper--libertine. Wycherley made his Horner an allegro con brio role. Kerr plays it allegro all right, but his portrayal needs more brio. Still, he speaks crisply, and handles his walking-stick as though born with...
...pace of My Young Years is allegro, the mood vivace, and the results bravisslmo. It is the first of a hoped-for series of volumes, written without the aid of a ghost writer. If Rubinstein's memory has romanticized the past and his prowess, no matter. The book spans his early life from his birth in Lodz in 1887 through the spring of 1917 when, as the author confidently puts it, "I had gained the necessary hold on my career...
...just for example, in the exposition of the first movement, right before the closing section. Haydn makes the bold gesture of virtually sitting on long, accented, harmonically ambiguous seventh chords for six bars, a device which clearly speaks for itself. At this moment, only the basic pulse of the allegro and the tension inherent in these chords keep the piece going; but as though afraid somebody would miss the point, the players retarded the tempo melodramatically, making the subsequent return to the more characteristic rhythmic motion of the piece seem awkward. In the second movement Haydn alternates sections of simple...
...audiences as performers. In all, 31 ballets were presented in seven days, and 21 of them were new works. While Bender kept his critic's eye on the stage, Rosemarie interviewed Choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins for an article accompanying the review. "The festival went at an allegro pace," said Bender when the 31st and final curtain had fallen. "After this week our own steps have begun to seem choreographed...