Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical part of the production been good. The orchestra was less frightful than last season. It was a newly formed State Symphony Orchestra, organized by Mr. Stransky. It is notorious that new orchestras are not good, and this one, with its lack of unanimity and of smoothened tone, compared not at all favorably with the small but expertly efficient orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House. Nor was Mr. Stransky's conducting of high quality. He often achieved exquisite niceties of sentiment in this opera of sentiment, but he did not bring out the glorious polyphony with power and clarity...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra gave one of the most interesting concerts of its, season to date. The program included Bliss's Color Symphony, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, and a Boccherini 'Cello Concerto played by Mr. Casals, played with great refinement and breadth of bowing, and warm fulness of tone, tho' with none too accurate intonation, at times. Bliss's Symphony is not propaganda music, but it might well be. Through three movements, "Purple," "Blue," "Red," it is highly impressionistic. In the last, Mr. Bliss throws down the gauntlet to the theorists and with a magnificent fugue on an almost forbidding...
...Manhattan, the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, target of many modernist attacks within the Protestant Episcopal Church, "called off his dogs" temporarily by enjoining all clergy of his diocese to refrain from theological controversy at the Christmas season. Both liberals and conservatives moderated the tone of their utterances or remained silent in consequence, but rumors circulated among the modernists that certain close clerical friends of Bishop Manning were violating the spirit of the truce by sending out circuar letters in an effort to repair fences and round up the Bishop's supporters for a firm stand in the post...
...Mary Nash), tangles herself in trouble at the outset by marrying the idle offspring of the recent rich. Her claim to cosmic recognition at the time was moderate success as a soubrette in a second class London music hall. She is careless of Cockney accent but scrupulous of moral tone. Amid the exotic realities of Monte Carlo, her male acquisition develops desperate ennui and she departs in dis- consolate defiance...
...most important works of the romantic school; Debussy's "Submerged Cathedral" which is a striking illustration of descriptive music, impressive and poetical; and several Chopin numbers, examples of the most idiomatic treatment of the modern key-board instrument. Ravel's "Vaalses nobles at sentimentales" show the modern method of tone-color, and Mr. Whitings's own transcription of Bach's English suite in A minor, originally written for the harpsichord, is a pianoforte rendering of that music...