Word: crescendo
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...last gradually building crescendo, a final thrilling chord, and the four musicians were bowing their appreciation of the audience's very audible approval. At first Vag felt cheated--the music should never have stopped; he should have been allowed to continue musing in this delicious manner. Finally, he forced himself to leave his chair and wander outside--the night air was crisp, the snow was an iridescent mass of white, and a haunting theme kept running through his sleepy mind. Vag went into hibernation to wait for the next Stradivarius concert on March first...
...Beecham. So steely brilliant and ballistically precise was his performance of Tschaikowsky's B Flat Minor Concerto that Manhattan critics hailed him as "the most successful artist to appear before the American public in a decade." For Pianist Horowitz that success was the first swell of a long crescendo. He was soon one of the biggest box-office draws in U. S. music...
Glenn Miller attributes his crescendo to the "juke box." which retails recorded music at 5? a shot in bars, restaurants and small roadside dance joints, and has become the record industry's biggest customer (TIME, Sept. 4). Of the twelve to 24 discs in each of today's 300,000 U. S. juke boxes, from two to six are usually Glenn Miller...
...play the piano for Cobina Wright, graduated to the editorship of Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers to the job of making Wallis Simpson's trousseau. M. Mainbocher's corset fillip, no matter what else could be said for it. was another affirmation that the world still looked to Paris...
...plebiscite (meaning the probable displacement of Generalissimo Franco); 3) that the liquidation of the war be accompanied without persecution so that all Spaniards could join in reconstruction. On the other hand, Generalissimo Franco, answering inquiries from London and Paris, was reported to have demanded unconditional surrender. Despite the crescendo of peace reports, it seemed more than likely that Dr. Negrin and his loyal ministers would soon transfer the Government back to Madrid or Valencia. They had nothing to gain by surrendering, little to lose personally by fighting. The Madrid-Valencia area could not be expected to hold out long against...