Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move and gesticulate as if controlled by a crazed puppet master and appear always to be running into each other, often at the least advisable moment. The production of 13 Rue de l'Amour at Manhattan's Circle in the Square comes creditably close to the Feydeau tempo and spirit, but it is difficult to orchestrate an arena stage to that crescendo of forbidden doors being opened and closed on which Feydeau depends...
...Throughout the first two movements he demonstrated his ability to play with emotive expansiveness while maintaining the lightness and delicacy of the music. Occasionally, however, the performance seemed to lose momentarily its sense of direction and its healthy self-confidence. The last movement was taken at an astonishingly rapid tempo which tended to emphasize Kogan's talents as a technician at the expense of his musical abilities. Although his displays of virtuosity were undeniably impressive, they seem better suited to works like those of Saint-Saens than to Mozart's ethereal classicism...
...devotees fly to the altar clutching their instruments, the congregation swelling behind them. A devotee with a mrdrunga or drum, sets a slow simple tempo and begins to chant in Sanskrit. The congregation answers the leader's prelude and sways with the slow tempo. The devotees dance closest to the altar, beating mrdrungas or kartals, small high-pitched cymbals, and leading the rest of the congregation in the singing and dancing...
...with 16:45 left in the game, Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin shifted the tempo in the Crimson's favor with a fullcourt press, Cy Booker hit for a deuce and Bob Allen connected on consecutive shots to narrow the margin...
...often outclass them. The human brain has a wiring defect that prevents it from absorbing several streams of information simultaneously and acting on them quickly. Throw too many things at the brain at one time and it freezes up; it evolved more than 100,000 years ago, when the tempo of life was slower...