Word: tonal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More wonderful for its massive tonal quality than for its artistic brilliance was the singing of the 4,000. The roof that has often reverberated with mass advice to fisticuffers, bicycle riders, marathon dancers, reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus...
...provides a more exciting display than conservative bodies like the National Academy. Such reputable painters as John Taylor Arms, Pop Hart, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, Walter Pach. John Sloan (president of the Society) and Claggett Wilson were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon by Madeline S. Pereny was a rhythmic arrangement of four Negro dancers, four Negro cymbal players and a flautist, all under a glowing moon...
...principle may be extended to the art of music, in which tonal variations are evanescent. Great virtuosi, who know how to mingle murmurous, tinkling and strident sounds, might be said to possess the "Great Ear." Master perfumers presumably have the "Great Nose...
...Students League for a period of a month apiece. These months he considers wasted. He gathered jazz orchestras which played in a New Haven grill and Manhattan's Rendezvous. He began to decorate night clubs as well as play in them, and gradually abandoned the tonal for the graphic art. He painted ornamental screens full of bearded Russians of red-coated huntsmen with filigrees of bugles and hounds. But the New Yorker encouraged his satiric sense and he found his metier. Last year he married Lois Long, onetime night club and restaurant expert of the New Yorker. They have...
...April 2). These two dozen transfers have enlivened the old Philharmonic, helped to give it warmth through Mozart's "Divertimento in D Major"; teased the old Philharmonic through Richard Strauss's Till Eulens pie gel's Merry Pranks; listened respectfully while the old Philharmonic read the tonal poetry of Schubert's Symphony in C Major...