Word: horning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mundane: the unsignaled lane change by the driver next to you, the guy who tailgates you if you go too slow, and the person ahead who brakes abruptly if you go too fast--each transgression accented by a flip of the bird or a blast of the horn. Sixty-four percent of respondents to a recent Coalition for Consumer Health and Safety poll say people are driving less courteously and more dangerously than they were five years...
...make it to her daughter's game. Within a block of her house she has hit 37 m.p.h., taking stop signs as suggestions rather than law. She has a lot on her mind. "I'm not even thinking of other cars," Anne admits cheerfully as she lays on the horn. An oldster in an econo-box ahead of her has made the near fatal mistake of slowing at an intersection with no stop sign or traffic light. Anne swears and peels off around...
Such was the case in the second movement, Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza, in which Tchaikovsky relies upon the French horn to introduce one of the composer's most effusively passionate statements, played with a slightly wavering but rosy tone by French horn James Bergman '99. All following events build upon the foundation established by the horn solo; Tchaikovsky's theme expanded into an outpouring of heroic proportions when taken into the hands of the violins...
...Dara Horn's column appears on alternate Fridays...
...still in a formative phase at this time, and included only strings and a few select wind instruments. Mozart composed this piece in his spare time while attending his sick father in London, and, so the story goes, said to his sister Nannerl, "Remind me to give the horn something worthwhile to do!" If that were not enough to stagger anyone, there are moments of soaring loveliness in this Symphony. It has the clarity of sound and rhythm of the Baroque style, though at one point the piece breaks into a hemiola of three-against-two that was highly unusual...