Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhythmic elegance is also very important. Even in the first movement of this concerto, which is marked Mastoso and is built on broad heroic lines, the rhythms must be alert and incisive rather than doggedly determined. There are certain turns of phrase which should be rendered with great finesse, and that, in terms of the Chopin style, that means with a very subtle application of rubato. Many pianists, knowing that Chopin calls for rubato tend to throw it on as if with a trowel, distorting the basic metrical life of the music and making the melodies sound maudlin and oversentimental...
...Challenge and response" was a catch phrase that Historian Arnold Toynbee used to explain the rise of civilizations. When Granddaughter Clare Toynbee, 21, was challenged by her bank to pay a $240 overdraft, her response was to become a weekend stripper in a Soho nightclub for $72 a session. Confronted by a reporter, she confessed ambiguously, "Oh well, I suppose I couldn't keep it under cover forever," and admitted that the family took a dim view. "At first I felt ashamed to strip completely in front of all those men," added Clare, an Oxford graduate...
...magical allure all its own. But there is far more to these players than such allure. Today Jacqueline's cello playing is a marvel of tonal beauty and instinctive emotion, backed by a prodigious technical grasp. As aurorally mellow as the late Emanuel Feuermann, as powerful of phrase as one of her former mentors Pablo Casals, Jacqueline is one of the most eloquent and soulful cellists alive...
...separate conversations with a member of the liberal and a member of the conservative caucus last spring, one identical phrase cropped up: "He's one of theirs...
...Vietnam- especially North Vietnam- the bombing was really not very fair because there were too many restrictions and it wasn't fair to the pilots because they couldn't bomb the center of Hanoi. But, he says, in Laos we've used the military without shackles- it's his phrase- and we've shown what air power can really...