Word: fortissimo
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...young woman's soul. Using a deep-throated, deep-fried southwestern accent (the actress was raised in Edison, N.J.), she gave Luanne a friendly but willful tone that could instantly reach hysterics of mirth or despondency. Murphy put just enough Too Much into Luanne's inane enthusiasms and her fortissimo fears. She knew that the character was deficient in self-esteem and, for all the company at the Hill house, pathetically lonely. Is Luanne a comic figure or a trailer-trash tragic one? In Murphy's superb voice work, she is both. As Luanne once told Aunt Peggy...
...underwhelming new production, playing Oct. 17-21 at Boston’s opulently beautiful Cutler Majestic Theatre, the orchestra fails to transmit the Romantic power of Weber’s music. The musicians, under the baton of Gil Rose, played with confounding restraint, not giving the fortissimo passages of the score their due fortitude. In the final minute of the overture, when the strings should be a band of sprinting hunters, they were instead a flock of pigeons flying languidly overhead. The absurd onstage pantomime that accompanied the music did not help matters, either.The singers, like the pit, also suffered...
...digital; Doug Morris, the boss of Universal Music, once slammed MP3 players as little more than "repositories for stolen music." But last year those companies saw their revenues from digital sales hit an estimated $2.9 billion, up almost eightfold since 2004. However, that's not exactly the fortissimo it may appear to be. The 38% annual growth in digital sales last year was less than half the increase seen in 2006. Music companies, says JupiterResearch's Mulligan, "are at a stage where they cannot afford to be as choosy as before" when it comes to distributing their wares...
...employed Paganini’s own invention, “ricochet” bowing (where the bow ricochets across the strings to produce swift and un-slurred notes), with the utmost effect, swimming through 20 notes in a matter of a few seconds. Then, violinist and orchestra merged together, fortissimo, to produce an epic finish.Goto performed a surprise encore, wild and improvised. While plucking strings with his left hand, he masterfully maneuvered the bow with his right.After Goto’s solo, the orchestra returned to center stage. Their performance of Beethoven’s Symphony...
...Hutton was 79 at this time, and she knew she was nearly spent. But she had that incorrigibly chipper spirit she'd broadcast so fortissimo in her films. "Finally you're gonna die from something. I'll die from stage fright, but it won't be anything else...