Word: fortissimo
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...fellow," cried Bob Wagner, "who says slavery is legal, and that in his country our Air Force cannot use Jewish men and cannot permit any Roman Catholic Chaplain to say Mass. [Saud is not] the kind of person we want to recognize in New York City." This Wagnerian fortissimo did not dampen the Navy's 21-gun salute for the monarch in New York harbor. But it did win Wagner the back of the hand from President Eisenhower at his press conference (see below...
Secure in Memory. Along that cruise, the Vienna Philharmonic never went off course for an instant; there were no frazzled high notes among the fiddles, and the fine, big blare of the fortissimo passages was never ugly...
...learn to control her unconscious mannerism of underlining important words with little negative twitches of the head. As her sister, Anna Hunt was colorless; her voice, though musical, lacked conviction. Their mother, as played by Jen Karabel, needed force; her mezzo-piano voice was not up to the two fortissimo outbursts demanded...
Brooklyn-born Richard Tucker, 41, is gifted with vocal equipment capable of a lyrical, sensuous legato and a ringing, exciting fortissimo. Beyond that he gives credit for his eminence to 1) the late Tenor Paul Althouse for teaching him, 2) former Met Manager (and former tenor) Edward Johnson for bringing him into the Met, and 3) Rudolf Bing for elevating him in roles and income. "I was making $6,000 as a cantor when Mr. Johnson offered me $95 a week to join the Met," says Tucker. "When Mr. Bing came here, I was singing for $350 a week. When...
...Vienna-born American, has been a man with a mission. He has yearned to popularize the American musical comedy in Vienna, birthplace and home of the op eretta. But conservative musical Vienna orchestrated (tutti) a violent campaign against Prawy's dream. Composers, academicians and critics decried (sostenuto e fortissimo) the American musicomedy as a purveyor of cheap, foreign, bad music...