Word: staccatoed
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Fourteen fitful fragments of their decline and fall are whisked by in staccato succession. Fourteen is too many times to snap the thread of theatrical illusion. Rather a restless rise of suspense is the result; it sags and roust be picked up again with visible effort at the beginning of each scene...
...Prelude and Aria from Bach's Suite in E Minor, his selection included an excerpt from a Sonata of Porpora, short pieces of Boulanger an Suk, two of his own compositions, a Waltz of Chopin and a Jota of Sarasate. His tone was full and mellow, incisive in staccato passages and following in legato...
...noise is not all. There are two technical points that make all the difference between a dull, heavy roar and spirited singing. Roll every r: "rrrip 'em thrrrough!" And sing as staccato as possible by putting an h before each vowel. Really "Hit the line for Harvard;" make "The cheers frrrom the Harvard hosts rrring high" mean something; and on the last line of the Marseillaise don't sing a feeble "Anon to victory," but a short, snappy prophetic: "hon hon to victory." ABBOTT LOW MOFFAT...
Every aesthetic possibility of these seeming-fragile structures, these English cathedrals, Mr. Conant has realized and rendered with short, firm staccato pencil strokes. All the training of the professional architect is behind him, and that implies a solidity of handling unknown to the disintegrated impressionist schools. (Nothing could be more different, for instance, than three etchings of Venetian Palazzi by Whistler, which hang on one of the other walls of the room.) One notes too a technical advance over the Spanish drawings, a greater range of values, in particular a greater use of black...
...high spirits in Stanford's setting of a Browning "Cavalier Song" and the exultant faith of "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" were rendered with accurate energy. "De Profundis", on the other hand was made to seem hollow and perfunctory by the hurried staccato delivery of the words. There was more theatricality than feeling in the interpretation. Rachmaninoff's "Cherubim Song", too, became a meaningless jumble of vocal effects, in which one could not see the forest for the trees...