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...Instrumental sounds tumbled about in wild confusion; there was never a concerted attack or a distinguishable pulse. The percussionists made sense only because many of their rat-a-tats and grumblings came out as minute variations on themes. The winds, on the other hand, were so overpowering, so agonizingly taut, that the listener felt lucky to find a recurring chord to hang...
Another equally important function of the orchestra is the presentation of modern and often local compositions. Under Greenebaum's direction the orchestra gave a taut, electrifying performance of Howard Swanson's Short Symphony. Swanson has written a difficult, powerful work of almost flaming intensity, within a compact three movement structure. One of his favorite effect is to bring the orchestra in a slow cresendo to a fortissimo, then follow immediately with a quiet passage in the winds, without ever abandoning his driving tension. The orchestra was exciting tonally and always under Greenebaumn's tight control...
...last week, Margaret kept her own counsel and performed with cool dignity the duties of her rank. But her face told a story of strain, suspense and indecision. Crowds of photographers, dogging her steps, glimpsed sometimes a young face, suffused with girlish happiness, sometimes a woman's face taut with worry. For nine out of ten successive days, the Princess managed to spend some well-chaperoned hours with Peter Townsend, usually at small, informal parties in the homes of friends. One such evening spun out until...
...steps of Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver bounded a lean, taut man carrying a briefcase. To the photographers who flashed and clicked at him, he cast a cold glance of recognition and offered the slightest suggestion of a wave with his right hand. Hurrying into the hospital to see Patient Dwight Eisenhower, the visitor was confirming the estimate of a White House staffer who had said: "We'll have a taut ship now that old gimlet eye is here...
...with Prokofiev's music behind it, even the most outrageous scene became plausible. The almost continuous recitative was punctuated with honest, lyrical arias, and a couple of taut musical interludes showed just how high a master could build tension. When it was all over, the audience stripped roses from the theater boxes to toss at the cast's feet, and the press tossed rosy adjectives. Would any other opera house undertake it? Probably not without drastic cuts-and a new leading lady. Said Soprano Dow: "They can do it again, but not with...