Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever may be said of Mr. Monteux's choice of program, the opening of the Symphony season last Friday and Saturday was a welcome occasion. The violins are to be commended for a smooth, clear tone, inclusive and clearcut where need be, broad and following at other times. These qualities they displayed to good advantage in the second and third movements of the Fantastic Symphony of Berlioz; in the graceful rhythm of the Ball and the pastoral idyll of the Meadows. In the latter movement the wood-wind choir did especially good work. But these are the only movements...
...however, until he was well into the second movement of the Sonata that Elman fully warmed to his work. As a result the first movement seemed hurried, blurred; but the third was ample recompense. Rarely has this Larghetto been so exquisitely played. Under Elman's bow the tone was of ethereal clarity...
Madame Matzenauer, one of the returning artists, is favorably remembered for her rendition of songs by Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, and Schubert when she sang with the Orchestra three years ago., Alfred Cortot, of crisp and crystal tone, played the third Beethoven Concerto in C-minor at the concerts in the season of 1919-1920, when Albert Spalding also played the Dvorak violin concerto. Moiseiwitsch, whose "discovery" was the sensation of the year in 1920, played the Schumann concerto in A-minor two years ago. Most of the other soloists are old friends to the regular concert-goers: Suffice...
...Informal talks as stimulating as those of Professor Moore and Dean Sperry are not to be had on every street-corner; music of such character and quality as that which Dr. Davison's trained choir rendered is a pleasure which many have come from far to hear. The whole tone of the simple service was one which the man of religious tastes would find inspiring and even the man who confesses to no such tastes would be certain to enjoy...
...upon it without flinching. Let every man be firmly persuaded in his own mind, and happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth; for if he swerve from what he believes to be right because others do the same he lowers his own moral tone and weakens his own moral fibre. If self-sacrifice be admirable and not foolish, if there be such a thing as moral obligation, it is because there is a moral order in the universe; and if there be such a moral order it must be for every man's ultimate...