Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summers and more intensive work in term time enable such students to cover four years' college work in two and a half years or three? How serious would be the sacrifice of some of the imponderables of college life involved in any increase in the tempo? What can be done to shorten professional education with out great damage to the quality of the training...
Oogie Oogie Wa Wa (Debbie Reynolds; M-G-M). According to Tin Pan Alley linguists, the title is Eskimo for "I want a mama." A fast-tempo piece of foolishness, well sung...
...pianists would either care or dare to present. On each night he performed four concertos of Bach, conducting members of the National Orchestra of Belgium and assisting soloists from his seat at the piano. Nodding his big head, or gesturing slightly with a momentarily free hand to indicate the tempo, he kept superb command of the ensemble, while producing immaculate music from his own piano. Characteristically, it was Bach of uncommon serenity in the slow passages, of robust vigor in the strong ones. (Fischer on Bach: "Good phrasing, a moderate tempo and a clear head are the three requisites...
Labor and consumers, as well as business, have shared the benefits of Canada's faster industrial tempo. The average industrial work week has been cut from 48 to 41.8 hours; the supply of consumer goods has been increased. Cars are coming off the assembly lines at 2½ times the prewar rate, refrigerators at nine times; production of radios and electrical appliances had been trebled. Today, three out of five Canadian families own a car, five out of seven have telephones, 19 out of 20 have radios. In the cities of Toronto and Hamilton, 30,000 homeowners have already...
...Variations for Piano with finesse and precision. The work consists of a theme, eighteen separate but closely related variations, and a coda, and seems to be an intellectual exercise as much as an expression of emotion. Possibly the best work on the program, it abounds in sudden shifts of tempo, tonalities, and dynamics...