Word: precisionism
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For the group of madrigals Schmidt used a reduced chorus of two dozen. An interesting comparison was afforded in two settings, a half century apart, of the same text--one, by Vecchi, lyric and smooth; the other, by Arcadelt, more dramatic. The singers displayed excellent precision in Lo Schernito, one...
In the well-paced scene from the First Part of Henry IV, Gervasi excelled as Prince Hal. He acts with confidence and precision, and utilizes gestures and facial expressions with perfect appropriateness.
To many pious German devotees of Johann Sebastian Bach, the singing of the St. Thomas Church Choir in Leipzig, East Germany, is the voice of Holy Writ. The choir school, attached to Leipzig's famed Evangelical Lutheran Thomaskirche, proudly points to J. S. Bach's service as its...
Flaws & Cheers. If the production itself was undistinguished (marked, said Wolfgang Wagner, by "objective sobriety"), the first yearning sighs of the orchestral prelude left little doubt that this Tristan was in expert hands. Dressed in tuxedo trousers and open-throated shirt, Conductor Sawallisch led his orchestra through a performance marked...
It is this formidable tone (parodied to perfection in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) that has made the eyes of generations pop with awe. They have also admired the precision and brilliance of Verne's descriptions: "titanic crabs pointed like cannon on their carriages"; "petrified bushes . . . scattered in...