Word: tonal
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...like a tall tent will wave around us"). As might be expected of the two leading interpreters of French art songs, both readings are of first quality. Singher, at his peak, is marred only occasionally by an overexpressive wobble. Souzay's touch is lighter, his pace brisker, his tonal coloration less varied. But he somehow seems closer to the text's vernal moods...
...different-priced seats. Balconies will be called terraces, and loge seats will replace the traditional boxes. The loge seats, however, "will be more generously spaced" than those in the terraces and orchestra. Concertgoers in even the remotest seats will sit under "clouds" of acoustical panels that will heighten tonal quality and deflect the lights to suit the mood of the music (an alarming prospect for people who do not particularly want to hear Bach in the dusk...
...idiom in 1924 at the Florence premiere of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. "Only two people in the hall were impressed by the music," he recalls. "One was a very unimportant young man. Me. The other was Giacomo Puccini." Dallapiccola, who for a time composed in a largely traditional, tonal style (he has always been an ardent Wagner fan), gradually started learning twelve-tone technique, teaching himself by studying Schoenberg's scores. "But in those days nobody appreciated my music," and he and his wife were sometimes reduced to a diet of water and one roll...
...first "blues" album (actually more pop than blues), Farrell displays many of the qualities that shine forth on the concert stage: the easy flexibility, the tonal purity, the subtle sense of pitch that enables her to put her voice within the heart of every tone. The selections scarcely call for her full power, but they summon humor, a swinging beat and dramatic conviction. As Farrell alternately becomes the raucously betrayed woman (Blues In the Night), the languorous lady of experience (Old Devil Moon), the world-weary floozy (Ten Cents a Dance), even the weariest lines emerge fresh and endlessly inventive...
...Bartok and Martin anticipated the dreams of the stereo engineers by calling for strings divided in equal groups on either side of the conductor. The resulting spread of sound is interesting, but less so than Stokowski's fine performance. Even with a pickup orchestra, his Bartok glows with tonal colors as weird and arresting as an electrical storm, and his vigorous reading of Martin has a fine shimmer and glow...