Word: tonal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great black arm and began to play. Then did the skeptics in the audience forget altogether the guitar of the barbershop ballads. Sor, Malats, Tarrega, Torroba, Grandaos, Albeniz and even a suite of the great Johann Sebastian Bach were played, with an amazing virtuosity and an infinite variety of tonal color. Some moments the music was bright, crackling like a harp's chord, then full, glowing like an E 'cello. Always it was more than a guitar, the mouthpiece of a rich imagination, intelligently directed...
...greeted at the New Fogg Museum with an exhibition of oil paintings, pastels and water-colors which present to the public an opportunity to study and admire the work of Martin Mower '01. Color that is striking and beautiful plus tonal qualities that are skilfully devised are rendered with a delicacy of treatment...
...complete the program: H. Emerson Whithorne's "Aeroplane," a tonal attempt at flight which taxied furiously without quite getting off the ground; III. Frederich Shepherd Converse's "Elegia Poem," from the melody of an old Negro slave song; finally two foreign compositions as a sop: the Mozart G Minor and Stravinsky's Fire Bird...
Last week the diplomatic pressure from both sides eased off into a prolonged flourish of bugles, which may or may not have contained a note or two from the bourgeois-terrifying "Internationale." M. Rakovsky accepted the deafening blast ordered by M. Doumergue at its full tonal value. Smiling, he nodded to the buglers as he entered the palace of the President to present his credentials...
Before a great company of notables the new Steinway Hall, Manhattan, was opened last week. Willem Mengelberg conducted 35 Philharmonic players through the tonal roast beef of Beethoven's "Dedication of the House"; Josef Hofmann exquisitely played his own "Sanctuary" (composed under the name of Dvorsky); millions listened on the radio. Among the guests, with bustling pride, moved four gentlemen who have made their money in the piano business-Henry, Theodore, William, Frederick Steinway (TIME, June 29), grandsons of the original Heinrich Steinweg...