Word: crescendo
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...first half of the concert was brilliant: Rossini's Overture to Semiramide and Beethoven's Seventh. ("We didn't watch his baton, we watched his eyes," the concertmaster said. "They flashed for crescendo, smiled for melody, cried for the depths.") The 7,000 worshipers that jam-packed the huge Moorish Shrine Auditorium spent half the intermission praising the Allah of music and swearing that Toscanini was his only prophet...
...Comets. For two hours the hurricane of steel roared and whooshed, the Katushas arching crimson-tailed comets through its center. Then it was noon. The crescendo fell to a deep drumlike rumble. White-clad infantrymen moved out ahead of white-painted tanks, self-propelled guns...
Canada Lee's fiery Caliban is brilliant. When Lee cries, "Ban, Ban, Ca-Caliban, got a new master, got a new man," Act II reaches a moment of dynamic crescendo...
...audience a well-mannered example. When a booming aria comes to a thrilling finish, and is then succeeded by a delicate orchestral postscript or a bit of crucial drama, a well-trained claque can hold the audience in check until the proper moment, then lead it into a crescendo of enthusiasm...
...Presidential campaign, which began as politely as a harpsichord duet, wound up with all the kettledrum banging of a Respighi crescendo...