Word: staccatos
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...Biggs is far from the last word in organ playing. He approaches almost all pieces in the same way, and they come out with a universally choppy, detached phrasing. Muddy playing is a grievous sin; but Biggs goes to the other extreme with his constant staccato jabbing. It grates on the nerves, and after about 15 minutes I was yearning for some sustained chords and some smoothly flowing lines. He also often attacks the keyboard from such a height that he strikes neighboring notes...
...issue contains still more excellent fiction--selections again, from a novel in progress by James Reichley. The three sections, which appear here under the title "Shimonis," sketch quickly and incisively the character of a young, aggressive politician and the small Pennsylvania city in which he lives. Reichley's staccato prose is full of the broken rhythms of speech and laughter which fill the words with energy until they seem ready to burst from the page with excitement. Sometimes callous, sometimes raucous, always to the point, his style is very far from Agee's, and in its way is effective...
...Sonata for Violin and Piano was most successful in the fast outer movements. The first movement, in a modified sonata-form with a bit too much stop-and-go, adopted a Bartokian brutality and approach to dissonance; and the finale dared to end softly with an effective pizzicato and staccato section. Rzewski failed to realize, however, that the bottom range of the violin is easily covered up by too heavy a piano accompaniment. And his piano texture tended to fall into two extremes--simple parallel octaves, or thick massive chords--with little in between. The slow movement was much...
Claudio Spies '50 was represented by his Music for a Ballet. My only reservation is that there was not enough Spies in the piece: it was pure neo-Classical Stravinsky--clear, clean and often dry with its reliance on repeated staccato notes. It had the virtues of being stylistically consistent (albeit in another man's style) and eminently danceable. Spies wrote it for two pianos and now intends to orchestrate it. This can be a dangerous procedure; for orchestration ought to be part of the original conception, not something to be added last. As this work now stands...
...rattled back at them. Next came the sullen, unmistakable, paralyzing crump of mortars, three in the courtyard outside, filling headquarters with dust and falling plaster. A deep red flame spouted out of a weapons carrier parked next to our car. Black, oily smoke drifted upwards. We could hear a staccato cry ai ai ai from someone who had been...