Word: chords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serve any useful purpose. Modern man is already surrounded by such a lot of continuous noise that [his] sense of hearing is beginning to suffer from it." But, he wrote, "this does not mean that it is impossible to say new things . . . Beethoven renewed music without adding a new chord, a new rhythm or a new melody not already employed by Bach, Haydn and Mozart...
...instruments got their chance to shine. Boomed the narrator, Nelson Olmsted: "First I invented the flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro, chord, and boogie-beat, Major, minor, jig, and waltz, Scherzo, downbeat, jazz, and smaltz, Jukebox, drumstick, and Puccini, Bassoons, batons and Toscanini...
...Edinburgh to conduct at the annual music festival, peppery old (70) Sir Thomas Beecham struck a sonorous chord: "It is an honor and a privilege for the festival for me to come." But when someone mentioned the Festival of Britain, planned for 1951 as a mammoth cultural fair, he sounded a brassy note: "A monumental piece of imbecility and iniquity...We are going to celebrate 50 years of the most abominable misgovernment by having an exhibition and festival at the expense of U.S. money...We are broke-underline that three times. The country has gone potty. We have no moral...
...they picked it up with a murmur and relished it among themselves with a nod or smile. They came back at him with a verse if he asked for it. Singing "Old Smokey," he threw the words at them one line at a time, catching them again when his chord changed and gave the group their...
Downbeat. In Springfield, Ill., Symphony Conductor Constantine Johns, raising his arms for the opening chord of Faust, dislocated his back, spent the next six weeks in the hospital...