Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opus 22, an Andante Spinato and Grande Polonaise in E flat, a work hampered both by an episodic lack of coherence and by a certain shallow virtuosity, Horowitz's amazing command of keyboard technique, unfortunately combined with a lack of feeling and perception, becomes especially noticeable...
...frequent performances of the overworked A flat Polonaise have varied considerably; the recorded version coincides with his Boston presentation in emphasizing its tympanic brashness rather than its heroic power...
...substituting harpsichord for piano, Victor has produced a version (DM-1035) of J. S. Bach's Third Sonata for violin and clavier in E flat more faithful to the Seventeenth Century style than the recording cut several years ago by Yehudi Menuhin and his sister Hepzibah. Although the harpsichord part may be slightly less important than the violin, the precision and vigor commanded by Wanda Landowska provide a better accompaniment for Menuhin than the carefully uninspired piano performance by his sister...
This time, like a circus performer whose first try and miss only show how hard the trick is, she hurdled a perfect A flat...
Some town sports got an idea: charter a train for the 32-mile ride to Swift Current. Archie Simmie, station master and café keeper, asked the Moose Jaw C.P.R. office, got word back that for a flat round-trip fare of $2.05, a $200 guarantee, a train would run. By telephone the news was spread; the guarantee became a cinch...