Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vulgate Bible. Written in the tone-row technique that Stravinsky once scorned but has lately adopted, the work has a spare, transparent orchestral accompaniment that for long stretches consists of no more than an occasional chord. To prepare the Hamburg Radio Chorus for the taxing job of staying on pitch while unaccompanied, Conductor Robert Craft rehearsed the group more than 20 times...
When Arthur Murray dance studios began springing up all over the U.S. 20 years ago, the big sales pitch was learning to dance in a hurry at a small cost. But no longer. Now that the Murray studios have expanded to 450 on four continents doing $55 million of business last year, dancing takes more time-and more money...
Duke Maas was called in to pitch and got Frank Torre on a fly to left. But he walked Del Crandall and Johnny Logan singled sharply to left, knocking in both Aaron and Covington for a 4-1 lead. Then came Burdette's home...
...West Texas plains, sharp-booted Texans and their women paid due homage to the "West Texas Fair," took in the livestock and the rodeo, then moved eagerly to the midway. The tip built up in front of the girlie shows (one Negro, one white), and their talker began his pitch: "This, folks, is Jody, who taught those Frenchmen in Paris something about the great American art of the striptease." The crowd rolled in at six bits a head. "Shake it, gal!" they yelled, happily ignorant that Dancer Anita Lopez was a bewigged male. On down the back end (the sideshows...
...training schedule includes 90 minutes a day for violin practice, regular composition (mostly unpublished chamber works). He is already working on scores he will conduct three years from now ("The music must sink in"). He memorizes all scores, usually on a first reading, and claims to have such absolute pitch that he can identify the make and model of most cars by ear. "I drive my car mostly by ear," he says, "and shift gears when the pitch of the motor reaches B flat...