Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd gave the cast an 8½-minute ovation. The second night the nation's top leaders-Khrushchev, Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan-were on hand, staying through a couple of curtain calls and applauding vigorously. Gasped the artistic director of Moscow's Mayakovsky Theater: "What a tempo! What rhythm...
Well-knit Work. The rippling second movement gave no clear idea of tonal home base, but it developed a comic effect as it progressed through subtly different rhythms. The third movement, again in pensive tempo, gave the soloist another long melody that breathed nostalgically of twilight among ruins, then let it sigh into a noontime atmosphere with a passage in octaves, then into a recitative of murmurous beauty, where Oistrakh's instrument spoke in unevenly repeated notes. The solo cadenza started with simple triads in different keys, then confronted them with each other in a clashing dissonance, then became...
...year. In 1954 Gina Lollobrigida, one of Italy's most conspicuous assets, reported an income of but $4,800. The tax collectors' estimate of her income: $40,000. When Textile Manufacturer Gaetano Marzotto once owned to an income of $704,000, Rome's Il Tempo suggested that "statues be built to him and piazzas named in his honor...
...orchestra plays. Omnibus and Bernstein were staggered by the response: "We had letters from plumbers, sociologists, little children and old men. Apparently, hundreds of people identified themselves with the conductor, standing in front of their screens with rulers and pencils in their hands and giving the beat and tempo. Even musicians liked it. I should have thought experts like Isaac Stern and Jennie Tourel would have been bored to tears, but they thought the show did a great deal for music, for the whole business of music...
...evoked, but Victor kept on releasing Christmassy disks until it had the subject covered in a world tour de force. The route: from Europe, with Italian Jingle Bells (Campanella, campanella, solo bella . . .) sung by Lou Monte, to South America with Christmas in Rio, tricked out in samba tempo by Tony Martin, to a cornfed, shuffling western version of Jingle Bells, played on guitar by Chet Atkins...