Word: tonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deaf ear. Next day Governor Edison named his longtime friend and business associate, Arthur Walsh, 47, manager of Governor Edison's successful campaign in 1940. At 19, Arthur Walsh played the violin for Thomas A. Edison, frequently played his instrument alongside Edison recordings to demonstrate their tonal quality. At Thomas Edison's funeral he played the inventor's favorite,I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen. He is now executive vice president of Thomas A. Edison Inc. and a director of six Edison subsidiaries. His appointment brought praise even from New Jersey's Republican Senator...
After the interval, Margaret, Codd Goldovsky, soprano, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society assisted in the performance of Mozart's Cantata (K. 108) . . . Mrs. Goldovsky sank in good style and with tonal warmth, although she was often overbalanced by the orchestra.--The Boston, Dally Globe, August...
...play it now than ever before, but its grammar has been so muddled by experimentation that it has become a language that everybody understands, but practically nobody can speak. The next few years will tell whether the broken pieces can be put together again or a new tonal language must be created from scratch...
...greatest of all time. Irritated at being continually asked whether they were related, he once bought a cap labeled "No." To Artur Rubinstein are dedicated the two toughest keyboard workouts of all time: 1) Stravinsky's "Sonata" from his ballet score Petrouchka; 2) Rudepoema, a ferocious tonal portrait of Rubinstein by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, whom the pianist helped launch. Rubinstein's tremendous digital attack once wrecked a piano of the late Queen Victoria, at a performance for the present Duke of Windsor...
...earlier years, when he was building the Philadelphia Orchestra to one of the world's greatest, he made legitimate use of tonal opulence. But his baroque conception of sound has lately given NBC many a headache. Sooner than rebuild its woolly-sounding Studio 8-H to his specifications, NBC hired an old auditorium (Cosmopolitan Opera House), opened the broadcasts to a paying audience...