Word: crescendoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service to the soul. Under Forbes' vigorous direction, chorus and orchestra turned every available muscle to the task and produced violently contrasting dynamics and bruising rhythmic drive. The choir commanded a seemingly inexhaustable supply of volume which swept in wave upon wave, a high powered form of the "Bolero" crescendo. The attacks of the chorus and orchestra were explosive and for the most part precise...
Yesterday the wail of protest reached an unprecedented crescendo. Reeling from Saturday night's massacre in New York--sixth-ranked Columbia more than doubled the Crimson's meager offense, 115-56--the players and their fans dragged through the day in disbelief. As usual most of the student abuse was directed at Coach Wilson...
...conducting was demonstrative, fluid, and expressive, moving in phrases instead of measures. His lines were lovingly shaped, sometimes elegantly, sometimes extravagantly. Mickiewicz is a master of that peculiarly Slavic kind of rubato whose sentiment hovers between joy and sorrow and has a gradual rocket accelerando that makes the Rossini crescendo dull by comparison...
...instruments in favor of microphones and amplifiers, others-Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller and the Russian Edison Denisov-find within orchestral resources the means for flying just as high. Denisov, the first composer from the recently surfaced Russian avant-garde to find his way to records, builds his six-minute Crescendo e Diminuendo by offering the conductor a series of short, disconnected blocks of string tones that he can put together in whatever order he wishes. In his ten-minute Phorion, Foss produces an authentic and horrifying piece of camp by turning a Bach prelude inside out and scattering its bones...
...would have made the union a criminal offense in the state. Until last June, when the U.S. Supreme Court killed Virginia's miscegenation law, 16 states still banned interracial marriage. More to the point, and more poignant, in a year when blackwhite animosity has reached a violent crescendo in the land, two young people and their parents showed that separateness is far from the sum total of race relations in the U.S.-that to the marriage of true minds, color should be no impediment. Indrawn as usual, Rusk pronounced himself "very pleased." Clarence Smith, Guy's father, said...