Word: sforzando
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME for Sept. 27 I read: ". . . performances such as one he heard of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. . . . 'Here now the orchestra is well into it; here is that sforzando where the flutes blew out a gasket last Saturday night-they have taken it at 45 miles an hour without a quiver...
...Nachtmusik (whence his book's title), which began, for him, with "the sudden, awed, incredulous realization that they had hit it, yes, by George, they hit it all together and all on the key-what a moment! . . . Here now the orchestra is well into it; here is that sforzando where the flutes blew out a gasket last Saturday night-they have taken it at 45 miles an hour and without a quiver. There is that crescendo rising to a high whole note where the cello threw a tire the time before that with a swoop and a triumphant scream...
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