Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed the first sale order. Honest Fritz Reiner, Philadelphia's opera conductor, spoke praisingly at the first demonstration. Soloist was Organist Pietro Yon of St. Patrick's Cathedral (TIME, May 7, 1934). Under his command, the new instrument seemed capable of a thousand effects. It was full-toned and rich, eerie and soft. In a modern pipe organ, similar sounds depend on electric blowers. A separate pipe is required for each separate tone. Mechanism of the new instrument is all in the console, in a bed of magnets, coils and whirling disks. With the turn of a switch...
...champion of ladies' bands am I, but unless the female method of tone production tillers radically from that of the male it seems almost libelous to attribute drooling to their horn players (TIME, March 25 ). Closer observation would show you that it is condensed moisture from the breath rather than saliva which accumulates within the tubing of brass instruments. As for ascribing the difficulty of French horn playing to the necessity of passing ' breath "evenly through some 16 feet of tubing, a matter of sustaining tone, a more fundamental problem is that of even starting the designated tone...
...however, a discreet and muted echo of big Germany's. Timidly Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg whose grip on congested Austrian politics is steadily growing limper, announced: "The Cabinet Council expressed the unanimous conception that the granting to Austria of full equality was a self-evident supposition." In a firmer tone he removed Austrian rearmament from the realm of supposition by adding: "The necessary procedure to increase the armed forces has been taken." In Vienna Dr Schuschnigg was soon said to have roughed out plans for increasing Austria's army from 21,000 effectives to some...
...together. In ability they are not evenly matched. Lee Strasberg is probably the most distinguished and experienced director of the Group. Luther & Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Alexander Kirkland had theatrical names before they joined the Group, are its top-flight actors. Kirkland's substitution for Franchot Tone is the only important change in the Group's lineup since it started. From opulent Hollywood, Actor Tone recently sent back $5,000 to help his onetime colleagues put on Awake and Sing...
...vampire who feeds on power and lust. She destroys three men in the first two acts. At the end when she is murdered and horribly mutilated, the orchestra emits one terrifying shriek. Then only did Bostonians sit up in their seats. For although Berg again "uses the twelve-tone scale, he weaves it into a crafty harmonic design, subjects it to his moods which are for the most part restrained...