Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group's specialist in recorders, call the Waverly "a mom and pop operation." She does the research, he does the arranging. "Even in modern notation," Kay explains, "a piece we select will typically be nothing but a melodic line, with no sharps or flats, no tempo or dynamic markings-just a clue." How to flesh out the melody, how to pace it and color it, when to use voices and when instruments, and even where a touch of improvisation might spark things along: these are decisions Michael makes. He plans the Waverly programs around a theme. Their annual December...
Neither squad could break through as the faithful streamed in and the tempo picked up until 9:13 of period two, when left wing Daryl MacLeod, last year's tournament MVP, neatly tipped a pass to linemate Paul Miller between Hynes's pads to knot the game...
Northeastern controlled the tempo of the game early, its only mistake coming at 5:03 of the first period when Husky defenseman Dave Archambault attempted to knock down a centering pass in front of his own net and accidentally sent it past Demetroulakas into the goal giving B.U. a 1-0 lead...
...starting to control the tempo, the icemen cut Maine's lead to 4-3 when sophomore forward Mike Watson picked up a loose puck in front of Tortorella and flipped a backhander into the goal at 7:38 of period...
Brest's dramatic style is all too literally geratic. His method of shifting mood from farce to pathos is to slow down the tempo of the soundtrack score. He telegraphs each plot point so far ahead that every event seems like a repetition: when Burns silently dreams up his robbery scheme, one can almost see a bulb turn on over his head. Many scenes are mercilessly padded with gratuitous reaction shots or pointless bits of local color; for this director, the shortest distance between two points is a figure eight...