Word: showier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spine-Tingling Blasts. There are showier, more opulent-sounding baritones than Fischer-Dieskau. But there are no singers about nowadays who use their voices with more intelligence, accuracy or theatrical effect. Fischer-Dieskau never uses his texts as excuses for mere vocal gymnastics. In the art songs of Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, he sings his way into moods alternately tragic, boisterous and nostalgic with subtle modulations of his dry, husky voice. And when at climactic moments he throws his baritone out in a high, ringing fortissimo, the effect is as spine-tingling as a trumpet blast...
Controlled Chaos. Talented Eugene Istomin invested his pelf wisely, played with both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony when he was barely 17. He favored the music of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart rather than the showier romantic pieces that appeal to most young pianists, and he developed a style marked by poise, serenity and the avoidance of bravura for bravura's sake. "Of late we have heard a good many pianists who came to us with enormous reputations sworn to on a stack of phonograph records," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Paul Henry...
Workmen already have converted a section of the hangar into a small but comfortable movie theater. The National Film Board is supplying the theater with documentaries about Canada's modern cities and its showier tourist places (e.g., Banff, Lake Louise, Niagara Falls), all frankly calculated to reassure travelers that the inside of Canada's house is not so forbidding as its bleak front porch...