Word: hushing
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With 95 musicians assembled on the stage of Carnegie Hall, there was the usual hush which precedes the appearance of the conductor. But no conductor appeared. The excited audience witnessed an all-but-unheard-of spectacle: the big orchestra began to play to a full house and an empty podium. The group was Arturo Toscanini's famed NBC Symphony, which NBC dropped last spring when the Maestro retired. Superbly trained, the men simply listened carefully to each other as they played, produced music that was perfect in balance, pure in articulation and movement. It sounded...
...spiritual, bushels of self-abasing letters were exchanged. The three met tearfully in Mrs. Tilton's bedroom. "I kissed him and he kissed me," Beecher later recalled, "and I kissed his wife and she kissed me, and I believe they kissed each other." With that, all hoped to hush up the affair...
...remarks as the following: 'I believe this is going to be a wonderful day. I believe I can successfully handle all problems ... At intervals during the day ... let mental pictures of the most peaceful scenes . . . pass across your mind, as, for example, some beautiful valley filled with the hush of evening time, as the shadows lengthen and the sun sinks to rest...
...more Jed indulged his material appetites, the more hush money he had to pay to his social conscience. After he bought a Cadillac, he told a party agent: "I think I am ready now to base my work on scientific socialism." When the Communists blandly agreed to let him have the best of both worlds, Jed gratefully accepted a party card...
Cathedral Hush. Everything following might be expected to be anticlimactic, but Berlioz achieves perhaps his greatest effects in the quieter passages that grip the heart after all the thunder. The superb Sanctus calls for a tenor solo in which, by a dazzling piece of orchestration, the single, defenseless human voice is set off against the relentless clash of cymbals; and in the sweet, concluding Agnus Dei, there are chilling traces of jagged pagan rhythms (later used by Stravinsky). Conductor Munch tenderly and forcefully drove toward the end, spinning out the Amen with a loving final touch. A cathedral hush hung...