Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arena Stage company gives an ensemble performance of lustrous brilliance. In tempo, mood and nuance, John Dillon's direction shows Chekhovian sensitivity. The evening provides one of those rare instances when bright rays of honor shine on the playwright, the audience and the theater...
...just don't have time to be a social cat." Since the death of Strayhorn in 1967, Ellington's closest intimates were his son Mercer, who played trumpet in the band and served as road manager, and his sister Ruth, president of Ellington's publishing firm Tempo Music. Ellington's marriage to Mercer's mother, his high school sweetheart, Edna Thompson, was short-lived. Though never lacking for female companionship, he did not remarry...
...violin solo fugue. Kogan joined Chang, and with three decisive chords, the movement was set. The two played distinctively, yet cooperatively, Chang driving and assertive, and Kogan mature and alert. The second movement, Andante con Variazioni, is a musical puzzle of Theme and Variations. The movement is long, the tempo is slower, and the variations get a little tedious, so more concentration is needed on the performers' part to keep projecting a mood and to keep the audience's attention. Excitement resumed in the third movement, Finale: Presto. Here it was clear that Chang was leading a race in which...
Dabezies displayed an impressive technique and a clear understanding of the music, but a lack of communication between soloist and orchestra prevented her Schumann Concerto from attaining the emotional heights of the Brahms. Discrepancies of tempo and dynamics marred the performance, particularly the third movement, which also suffered from disjointed orchestral playing...
Brad Kent, as the "unmannerly sea-dog" and hero Manly, snarls and grimaces his way through the first four acts. Rarely varying either tempo or tone, he renders the not-so-despicable hero totally unbearable. His sudden transformation into the future husband of the victimized Fidelia is, as a result, anything but credible. Both the irony and tragedy of Manly's character are lost in a flood of rage...