Word: legato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrated Updike prose style, it is present in all its gradations, which is to say that it ranges from the exquisite to the embarrassing. At its best, Updike's writing flows with an unforgettable, lilting legato: "October's orange ebbed in the marshes; they stretched dud grey to the far rim of sand." The talk of a husband and wife in bed at night, speaking of their children or their friends, evokes in tone and languor the bedroom conversation familiar to all parents. In the Guerins' home, guests move through "a low varnished hallway where...
...younger school of pianists, though occasionally suggestive of Gilels' savagery (in the first movement) and Richter's coloristic indulgences (in the first movement) and Richter's coloristic indulgences (in the third and last). In his best moments, Indjic displayed a facility ranging from unerring power to an unbroken legato touch. However, it is important to add that his technique has not yet reached the point where he can freely concentrate upon interpretation alone...
Most electrifying were the technically imposing passages. Castleman soars through the harmonics and arpeggios, and eats up such frights as bowing legato and plucking (with the left hand) simultaneously. His intonation rarely wavers; at one point in the Allegretto he romps into a high E perfectly. A crucial disappointment, however, was the lack of a big sound when he needed it. The two climaxes of the second movement depend upon massive crescendos, which the soloist was unable to provide. Lack of a real forte, plus a general timidity with rubato, occasionally impeded a very impressive performance...
...with burly authority. The score opened with a fast descending scale on the strings joined by the brassy blare of trumpets. Four stark downbeats on the kettle drums were omens of doom. Cracking fortissimos rapidly fading to a whispered diminuendo, an accumulation of dissonant agonized tones, a carefree pastoral legato phrase, and a lamenting melody on a reedy oboe vividly characterized the fateful day in Dallas and the President's oblivious ride to his death...
...such ailments, Krips is the perfect doctor. He is a master of cajolery and charm, and a bulging pocket of ambition. He descends from a long line of Viennese-school conductors (Gustav Mahler, Felix Weingartner and Bruno Wal ter), and in his singing, legato style, he is one of the world's most admired conductors. His ar rival in San Francisco brought the city to a pitch of enthusiasm it had not felt for years...