Word: pizzicato
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...Walter (The Incredible Flutist) Piston's Symphony No. 5, probably his best work to date. It began with something that sounded suspiciously like forest murmurs, complete with flute and pizzicato strings. But soon it built a blazing climax on a pyramid of harmonies, brass on winds on strings, in orchestration as solid as Tchaikovsky's. The first movement, indeed, was a rejuvenated Piston; in the other two, however, he reached his high points of lyricism without seeming to aim for them, leaving a feeling of puzzlement...
...human heartbeat of a situation, Rattigan might as well be hunting uranium with an ear trumpet. Moreover, in The Deep Blue Sea, the leading lady does little to help. The part is scored, though crudely, for the full cello notes of womanly anguish; Vivien plays it in the thin pizzicato of girlish petulance...
...late Chief Justice Vinson (Said Warren to a court official who asked him if he wanted his own specially built chair: "Pshaw, that one's plenty good enough for me!"). Occasionally he asked a quiet question to clarify a point. Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, as if playing pizzicato violin to Warren's cello, turned and twisted in his specially built chair, fired quick, needling questions at the attorneys, sent messengers scurrying for law books. All of the nine men behind the long bench, unlikely to agree, knew that they faced a decision that could well be a landmark...
Paganini treasured the instrument for the rest of his life. He took it home to Genoa, where he devised some of the fantastic technical tricks-such as playing pizzicato with his left hand while bouncing his bow across the strings with his right to create a dazzling cascade of notes-that bewitched audiences all over Europe. On the last night of his life, in 1840, he called for it, and spent some of his last moments improvising on its strings. In his will, he left it to the city of Genoa, for "perpetual conservation...
Jimmy Archey is still the best in town, and he is still at Jimmy Ryans, the last of the 52nd Street dives. Pops Foster, who was the first bass-player to go all-pizzicato, and drummer Tommy Benford, who hit the main circuit with Jelly Roll Morton, assist the star trombonist. Sunday...