Word: staccatos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...