Word: smoothing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the orchestra sometimes seemed uninspired during the evening, there was no dragging feeling in the last two movements. Melnyk's acutely sensitive solo passages were matched by the orchestra's dramatic surges, held together by Yannatos. Shifting smoothly from soft piano stretches to rousing tuttis, the orchestra and soloist cooperated perfectly to make the sudden contrasts quite striking. Similarly, the concluding Allegro agitato was quick and smooth, all the more effective because of the nice transitions from piano to ensemble. Melnyk's and the orchestra's playing were especially forceful and resolute right from the beginning. Indeed...
...tree-spirits in classical Greek mythology--half-close your eyes and stand back from a cluster of them and you could almost imagine the room was filled with figures that are half-human, half-tree, but all energy trapped beneath the wood surface. This exhibition in Hilles consists of smooth-oiled spruce statues and murals with names like Frozen Banner or La Primavera or Full Orchestration. They are abstractions of abstractions, the work of an artist who declares "I never knew an artist in my life". They are a perfect symbiosis between function and form...
...were talking about Atlantic Rhythm Section, a five-year-old band that's about one-year-known up here and A Rock and Roll Alternative, their second 1976 offering. It rocks steady like that Bad Company song. It rolls smooth through ballads as sentimental as a first love. And it is definitely one of the best alternatives around to that much-heralded and oh-so-obnoxious punk rock...
...fashion. At 10,000 ft., Pilot Fulton ran through other tests, including shutting off one engine and lowering the landing gear. Fulton's only unusual sensation was "a slight buffeting" caused by the bird perched on his plane's back. The touch down looked every bit as smooth as a commercial 747 landing at New York's J.F.K. Airport...
Lanier continued to try to smooth the differences, but at one point, the strain was so great that he talked of taking a Cowens-esque leave from the team to "get some peace of mind." As Brown's control over the players slips away, Lanier has assumed some of the coach's perquisites, seemingly running the Pistons and even taking himself out of the game when he, not Brown, feels that he needs a rest. Still, Lanier has logged more playing time than any other N.B.A. center. His teammates more and more seem to concentrate on glaring...