Word: legato
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...rousing czardas that looked as if it might have been borrowed from Russia's bouncy, folkish Moiseyev dancers. Hayden, naturally, was given a brace of queenly solo turns and a pas de deux with Favorite Partner Jacques d'Amboise calculated to accent her un obtrusively cool, legato manner...
...balance, too, the Choir excelled. Rather than a collection of sopranos with others, it was a true equality of vocal parts so necessary to Bach's complex polyphony. Richter generally chose legato articulation, but the choir handled the staccato Pleni sunt coeli passage with case. The attention paid their conductor is yet another point: Richter varied his tempi suddenly, but singers and orchestra followed right along...
...poise. Generally, the orchestra did not approach the buoyant subtlety and control of her playing in the first and last movements, again because of rhythmic and textural insensitivity. Moshell's monochromatic manner of conducting is at least partially responsible for such problems: a beat which does little to emphasize legato and staccato, piano and forte, and the relative importance of the various voices, is less than appropriate for a work which, like the Bartok, is essentially large-scale chamber music...
...items as pencils and lipsticks were authentic. He and his cinematographer emulated the visual style of the period, eschewing zoom lenses, fast cuts and jarring closeups. They used many longer tableau shots, achieving emphasis with subtle framing and lighting. Coppola edited it all together in what he calls a "legato" rather than a "staccato" rhythm, enabling him to build tension gradually and effectively over the picture's three-hour labyrinthine development...
...example, a telephoner can play a respectable rendition of Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head. Tapping out 1199009 will produce Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and 0005 8883 calls forth the first bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. With some practice, and the use of staccato and legato on the appropriate notes, even more sophisticated tunes are possible: When theSaints Go Marching In and Around the World are two often played examples...