Word: chordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here is both an eye for strength, unconfused with violence or misplaced emotion, and a feeling for lyric poetry, unconfounded with sweetness or saccharine romanticism. Aside from a few false notes, the chord rings true throughout...
Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony is so called because, after 15 bars of charming, tinkling music, the whole orchestra suddenly crashes into a shattering fortissimo chord. But as played in a British Columbia album, the symphony contains several surprises not in Haydn's score, including snatches from old-style Chicago jazz records, an ocarina solo and a septet of bottles-five hot-water and two beer...
...producers arbitrarily changed their rules to enable Schoolboy Strom to win as much as $256,000, and devised new rules to let Clerk Nadler keep winning too. More important, a kind of inflation has also hit the contestants: instead of the kind of ordinary people who struck a responsive chord in viewers, they now run to narrow specialists and photographic minds-"freaks," as the trade calls them. Given a margin of error for the contestants' human foibles, the producers seem to be able to control virtually everything-except their own fears of losing their audience...
...qualification to the inaugural speech just delivered by a President of the opposite political faith. Humphrey was not alone in his estimation of Dwight Eisenhower's speech (TIME, Jan. 28); rarely before in U.S. political history had the ideals and ideas of one man struck so responsive a chord among politicians, pundits and just plain people of generally divergent opinions...
...Dodd told fellow delegates to the National Piano Tuners' convention in Kansas City that rock 'n' roll is raising hob with the nation's keyboards. For the first time in his long professional career, he said, he had seen a piano's thick bass chord snapped by a pianist flailing out a thundering rock-'n'-roll chorus...