Word: scrunching
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...like to see as well as hear, watched him fascinated, saw him hunch his great head down between his shoulders, pick with his long fingers short staccatos from the very heart of the orchestra; in a passage for strings saw him turn his back on half his band, scrunch himself down to a miserly six and a half feet and, hair waving, fly at his violins, draw unfathomable" strength from their very hearts. Musicians sat with eyes closed, contented and appreciative of his reading of Haydn's Symphony in C minor, Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony and Beethoven...