Word: staccatos
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...heard yesterday in Sanders Theatre. Thus the remarkable stylistic features of the group's performance--the infinite modulations in dynamics, in the vibrato, and in the tonal intensity itself; the subtle and varied means of tongueing (comparable to bowing on a string instrument) and the avoidance of a "pecking" staccato; the richness and homogeneity of the blended tone not only of all five instruments but also of the many other combinations possible all these brought to mind the tradition, now taken for granted, which forms one of the bases of the virtuoso symphony orchestra in this country...
...General Masters, also has a difficult role. The transition from the hard, world-wise crynie of the first act to the man with a past of blazing idealism is a difficult one, and I am not sure that the play fully explains it. Mabry, however, skillfully controls Master's staccato efficiency and constrained pleading with the general. For Masters to be clear, we must see him as one who flight his causes with objective, calculating tactile, rather than the more burning idealism of Benson, the state department official who has been subpoenaed before a Congressional investigating committee...
...full-size). Rembrandt broke with the polished limning of his day to create a graphic shorthand of his own, which amounted to putting space in parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems, as another man would scrawl his name, he sketched fence, farmhouse trees and far-off mill into deep, cold stillness...
...Vaudeville as "my memories of the Apollo Theater at 125th Street . . . real vaudeville ... I wasn't thinking of any particular act. The decorated panel behind? I never saw it; I made it up. You can't just put together things you've seen. I wanted a staccato-type thing- raw, sharp, rough- that's what I tried...
...more than just impressions; Composer Guion even worked in recordings of a Texas cricket singing, a mockingbird calling and a coyote howling. Among the other 13 parts were such plaintive songs as Buffalo Bayou Song and Wild Geese Over Palestine, Texas, an item entitled Ride, Cowboy, Ride!, with staccato hoofbeats, and for a climax, a low-down blues piece called High Steppin' Lula Belle May Ida Brown of Lyons Avenue Steps...