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...Long live the clown! He conducts a symphony with perfection of tempo, theme variation and delicate shading of tone. Laughter is music. Play on, Maestro Flip! Play your tunes, play your roles, and play to the children...
Fitzsimmons hit on 15-of-18 from the floor and two-of-two from the line, to pace the Crimson with 32 points. But Dartmouth's guard Bill Raynor controlled the tempo of the game...
...sensitivity and flexibility of the interpretation is astounding. The two bourrees of Suite No. 2 are usually done at one tempo. Harnoncourt easily could have selected what he considered the optimum tempo for a bourree and simply plunged through both of them with metronomical precision. Instead, he slows down the second bourree, allowing the solo flute to come out--and then returns to the opening tempo in the da capo. In the extensive program notes that come with the two discs, Harnoncourt explains this by characterizing one bouree as stuermische and the other as delikate; and he plays them accordingly...
...meeting of the American Historical Association in Manhattan: "The era of uncritical mass accommodation to the motorcar has ended; for most Americans, automobility has become simply utilitarian and lost its quasi-religious connotations; most important, the automobile and the automobile industry no longer call the tune and set the tempo of American life." One major reason for this shift in attitudes, Flink thinks, is young Americans' sweeping indictment of the car for contributing to "environmental pollution, urban sprawl, the decay of the center city, the decimation of our remaining wilderness areas." He did not predict what will take...
...Berlitz School to perfect his French accent in English. Chevalier was marked by America long before he saw the Statue of Liberty. "My first influence was the American music hall," he has explained. "I remember seeing the Tiller girls in Paris sing Yankee Doodle Dandy with that crazy tempo. I went mad. What I did was to mix the American novelty and old French humor so that even to the French I was something new." It was that new-old French humor that came across in his best-loved chansons, Valentine, Ma Pomme, Paris, Je T'Aime, and such...