Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical equivalent to Author Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. Subtitled Concord, Mass., 1840-60, it attempted to paint in music the surroundings and personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp at one sitting. But respected New York Herald Tribune Pundit Lawrence Gilman unwrinkled his critical brow, crowed ecstatically: "Exceptionally great music . . . the greatest music composed by an American...
...Mexico, Correspondent Kluckhohn's reports soon took on a tone unsympathetic to the Cárdenas regime. He was the first reporter to discover that proletarian Mexico was bartering expropriated oil for products from Nazi Germany. He reported the woes of foreign businessmen with such zeal that Mexican authorities lost patience...
...Masaryk has been in the U. S., where he once worked and where he married an American heiress.* He found the U. S. changed-for the better-but the U. S. found no change in him. Still the urbane, witty image of Cinemactor Dudley Digges in appearance, expression and tone of voice, still a great teller of racy stories and amiable spiller of confidences, he wasted no bitterness last week on the men that so hastily and so clumsily deserted his country. His chief criticism of the Munich deal, said he in private, was that "It lacked skill, elegance...
Back on Broadway for the first time after six years in Hollywood, Franchot Tone-an original member of The Group Theatre-proved nimble in his gangster role, but too suave and lacking in guts...
Famed Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans sounded off on pianists' "touch": "So far as single notes are concerned it does not matter how [a pianist] strikes the key, so long as he strikes it with the requisite degree of force. . . . The tone quality will be the same whether he strikes it with his fingers or even the end of his umbrella...