Word: legato
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...tenor voice. It had no great volume, no ringing top notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle register, though slightly nasal, had clarity, directness. His legato was not languishing but neither did it have the vibrato so regrettably common among inexperienced singers...
Gala Night introduces James Rennie as a Hungarian tenor in an operatic comedy which attempts a witty scherzo and achieves a tedious legato. He becomes embroiled with several jealous women, but extricates himself just in time to enjoy the startling success of the little understudy whom he has secretly married. The cast works valiantly...
...with a fabric ready-made. Stephena Cockrell takes heart of grace from this fact and adds another novel to the away-down-south-in-Dixie list. She goes about the task with a directness arguing a magazine apprenticeship. The ever vernal poor girl-rich boy theme is introduced with legato variations. An opening scene in which an ant covered antique hinge is concealed by the ingenue, Sally, in her silk unmentionables only to be hastily plucked forth as the man, Richard Clarke, curio collector, appears for the first time, constitutes good bait for the reader. Unfortunately, the pace slows down...
...Bach's Suite in E Minor, his selection included an excerpt from a Sonata of Porpora, short pieces of Boulanger an Suk, two of his own compositions, a Waltz of Chopin and a Jota of Sarasate. His tone was full and mellow, incisive in staccato passages and following in legato...
...Trovatore," Verdi 5. Overture, "Midsummer Dream," Night's Mendelssohn 6. "Morning Mood" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Suite "Peer Gynt," Grieg 7. Ballet Music from "Coppelia," Delibes 8. "Finlandia," Sibelius 9. "Czardas, Der Geist des Wojewoden," Grossman 10. a. "To a Wild Rose," MacDowell b. Legato, Strube 11. Selection, "Prince of Pilsen," Luders 12. March, "Teufel," Suppe