Word: fortissimo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lover she chooses is too torrid for a woman acclimated to a temperate zone. Then too, her husband is rather unpleasant about the liaison, so she finally dashes off to Austria with the doctor. Walter Connolly is excellent as the smug, foolish husband, but Henry Hull's persistently fortissimo rendition of the other man frays the nerves and should detract from his reputation...
Last week British airmen zoomed over the Afric Sudan, raining down bombs upon maddened, defenseless, uncomprehending herds of cattle. Boom! Above the basso of the bombs blood spurted fortissimo. Boom! Mangled flesh and splintered bones crescendoed high. BOOM...
...four hundred and fifty million subjects of the King Emperor, George V, were expected to harken last week as the note of Empire boomed fortissimo at London...
...Stokowski, conducting a symphony of empty chairs, churns on and on; the music must be coming to a climax, for now his arms wildly flagellate; he whips his fiddlers up to a crisis, holds his phantom cymbals and horns and woodwinds suspended in a terrific fortissimo of silence, and then, at a final mute drum-stroke, drops his arms to his sides. . . . Standing alone, his back to the audience, he orders his invisible orchestra to rise to the applause that does not come ? turns, smiles, walks quickly...
...characterized by a clarity of line and a delicacy of shading which brought every nuance and tint into relief. Even in the difficult counterpoints among the choruses or between certain voices and the orchestra, there was no blurring of the melody. From the most delicate pianissimo to a stirring fortissimo, from the richest chords to the most varied countempointing, every voice came out with a clear, sustained sweet quality rarely if ever found in any other college choral societies. Great praise must be given to Mr. G. W. Woodworth, who trained both clubs in the absence of Dr. Davison...