Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Segovia was celebrating his 50th season of concertizing. In Manhattan's Town Hall he demonstrated again the magic that he brings to the guitar, an instrument that, before Segovia's coming, was thought to be fit mostly for gypsies. "Segovia's guitar does not sound loud," Stravinsky once said, "but it sounds...
Ferras' legato passages spun out in long, honeyed strands of sound; his attack in the cadenza was as crisp as vellum. Throughout, he displayed a sweeping, rhythmic flair, a fluent, coolly lustrous tone. His Brahms had about it a quality of molded passion that far older artists might envy...
...azalea-banked exhibit, fresh from a two-year run on Atlantic City's Steel Pier, lit up and went into a 15-minute "performance" controlled by an impressive set of electronic equipment behind the scenes. Three minutes and ten seconds after the deep, resonant voice on the sound track began the story of Gethsemane came the cue: "He turned to his disciples and they were sleeping"; at this point the head of the papier-mache figure of Christ slowly turned. "Where were the multitudes and sick he had healed?" intoned the narrator, and Christ's head began...
...Pastor Duncan, "at the idea that the agony in the garden of our blessed Lord, one of the most awful events in his Passion, should be thus exploited . . . Where are we going to stop? Next thing will be our Lord on the cross with his last words in stereophonic sound. I have no objection to religious art, but when you begin having dolls . . . good...
...Sound and the Fury. Hollywood has diligently soaped up William Faulkner's stained-honor novel, but the laundered version is also admirably starched with excellent acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner and Margaret Leighton...