Word: sensuousness
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...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 by a water-clear sense of orchestral relationships and rock-sure control. He attacked at a slower than usual tempo, underscored the sensuous quality of the music without letting his orchestra wallow in it. There were the usual first-night flaws. During the second-act love duet, the word über-mächtig "vanished without trace" from Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen's memory. With a series of semaphore cues that almost sent...
Strictly Earthbound. Even D. H. Lawrence, to whom sexuality was the essence of life, tinged it richly with a sort of mysticism. But Colette, genius or no, was unique in regarding life as a marvelous array of strictly earthbound sensuous experiences. In novels such as Chéri and Julie de Carneilhan, she described as never before the precise effects of fingers upon skin, the allure of perfumes, the sensual enchantments of voices, glances and languorous movements...
...wife sat down to write (for three hours every afternoon), it was as if some supernatural policeman appeared and took her wildness under complete control. Colette, at work, was humble, painstaking, indefatigably exact. The marvel of her work lies in the discipline with which she marshaled and controlled the sensuous savagery of her subject matter...
...last week's Cavalleria, from the moment Tucker's fervent and sensuous voice sounded offstage in Turiddu's precurtain love song, the audience was his. Dressed in a tinhorn gambler's dark shirt and the cheap Sunday suit of a Sicilian villager, Tucker swaggered about the stage in response to broken pleas from Santuzza (well sung by Veteran Zinka Milanov). He powerfully thundered forth his challenge to Alfio, husband of his mistress, and in the final great aria movingly sang his farewell to his mother, the sure delicacy of his voice topped off by his rough...
...approve more of his performances for release). When he approved of a recorded passage, the right hand stirred in rhythm to the music, then the left hand signaled for expression, finally both arms moved in great sweeping gestures as the old man conducted the invisible orchestra. The dark-eyed, sensuous face lighted once again with the fury and exaltation it had worn on the podium, and the cracked voice rose in frenzy...