Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swell the sound that spreads beyond the Yard dormitories. For an hour, or three if necessary, Woody conducts furiously, occasionally shouting "that's it" into the music, or slapping the table with an emphatic "no." Then the singers stop on a temporal dime, and without perceptible damage to the tempo of the rehearsal Woody throws in an anecdote about "Koussie" in a rough approximation of Koussevitzky's English. The atmosphere is always spirited, though not always so gay. When he uses his fist instead of his palm on the desk, everyone sits up and gives the best...
Practical problems in the performance of choral music of different periods. Dynamics, rhythm, tempo, basso continuo, instrumental accompaniments, number of performers, balance of parts, and related problems of style, approached historically and analytically...
...good week to sit in the galleries of the House and the Senate, simply to watch the Congressmen at work. On the floor of both houses the tempo was slow, and it was possible to study types. There was the Long Haired Southerner or Patronage Ouzel; the Snapping Southerner or Mississippi Valley Shrill; the rare Old Shaggy or Great Trumpeting Republican and a few aging Bald New Dealers. And, of course, there were droves of newly elected Mute Republicans, all harrumphing softly and rattling paper with an anxious air of authority...
...recently, but almost everything to do with the Duke and the Dauphin and others who peopled Mark Twain's piazza. Not for Fields was the jet-propelled gagging of the radio studios, as fast and inhuman and footless as a new transcontinental speed record. His tempo was adagio...
Supposedly 'a parallel in tempo to John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera'" (it will be entitled "Beggar's Holiday" during the New York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...