Word: crescendoe
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...inception, the first movement takes the form of a large crescendo made of several building sequences. Each sequence in this Animato, ma serioso begins thinly and eventually stops, giving way to another one with a greater endpoint. The music itself shimmers and sparkles with the addition of a harpsichord and celeste, though its edges are not completely smooth...
...last half a dozen episodes have the ladies reaching a crescendo of tastelessness. They fire off jokes about masturbation, bulimia and the crisis in Grozny. In one episode, Edina and Patsy tart themselves up for the arrival of two male prostitutes. When Edina is worried that her tight dress will make her seem like "a pushover," Patsy responds, "Darling, you're paying him. In his eyes you're already flat on your back and staked...
...community demonstration. When a police squad comes to "deal with" the peaceful neighborhood protest, they deliberately cover their badges before diving into the crowd of mourners. Van Peebles' camera careens through the crowd as the sickening thuds of police clubs thrashing innocent protestors rise to an unbearable crescendo above the images of their bloodied bodies being dragged into police vans...
...Stoppard's play The Real Thing. "I believe in singles." The joy and curse of Elton John's music is that every song on every album has eyes to be a hit single. These are super-productions, aural Busby Berkeley numbers, ascending an oratorical mountain to the sky-rocketing crescendo. And, on Made in England, they sound swell; there's heft and meaning in the songs--no throwaways. "Since I've been sober I've made three albums, and this is the best," he says. "Getting adjusted to a new way of life takes time. You don't go from...
Overall, the piece is a delightful success.Under the sure guidance and light touch ofSaccente's Gianni Schicchi, the opera rises to acomic crescendo. When Saccente appears alone onstage to beg forgiveness (and applause)--after hehas evicted the avaricious Donati from the housethey have unwittingly willed to him and united thehappy lovers--the audience is only too happy toenter a plea of "not guilty...