Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carl Nielsen, and thoroughly captivated a big audience in Carnegie Hall. The Danes were more relaxed and easygoing (and a bit less precise) than most top U.S. orchestras. They bowed their strings lightly, making bright, pure threads of sound. The brasses were not particularly powerful, but they sounded as mellow as if the instruments were made of soft copper. The horns-prone in any orchestra to skid off their notes-were as secure as a pipe organ...
Third Party. For such ideas, for his jokes (he estimates he has 25,000 stored in his head), and his mellow voice, Camel has paid Hawk approximately $2,000,000 over the past ten years. Bob says he is always careful to treat contestants on the Bob Hawk Show (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS), broadcast from Hollywood, with "real consideration. We never let contestants think we are laughing at them. We always pick out a third party, like a husband, and laugh about...
...mellow voice of Price Administrator Ellis Arnall rose tremulously as he discussed the inflationary effects of the steel price increase. It will "set off another round of inflation," said Arnall, and add $100 a year to the average family's budget. The echo of Arnall's tones had hardly died when his boss, Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Putnam, flatly contradicted him. There had been a "lot of talk" about steel setting off a round of inflation, Putnam said evenly, and it just isn't so. Although big steel had held "a loaded gun" at the Government...
Schumann: Dichterliebe: Wolf: Four Songs (Gérard Souzay; Jacqueline Bonneau, pianist; London). Souzay's melting baritone blends intimate crooning and masculine vigor in performances of firm conviction. Recording: mellow...
...Fifth Symphony is not a strikingly original work--its precision and simple, transparent orchestration show the influence of Mozart, but in its broad melodies and sudden modulations it is pure Schubert. The orchestra played it perfectly. I do not believe the string section has ever produced such light, mellow tones...