Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suite by Dominico Scarlatti left the original melody and harmony unaltered, merely adding drum, tambourine, triangle, and xylophone to the traditional 18th century orchestra. Even those additions did not alter the character of the composition markedly, for these tinkling and rattling instruments gave an orchestral approximation of the harpsichord tone...
...orchestra's ambitious attempt to perform Schubort's 5th Symphony with only 19 pieces was highly successful, the lighter tone making the texture clearer than in the more usual large-orchestra version. Mr. Zighera controlled the dynamics masterfully and the individual players handed the theme back and forth with a team-work essential to a small ensemble. There were not enough violins, however, to balance the rest of the orchestra, as their enunciation of themes was occasionally smothered by the other instruments...
...Kousse-vitsky, with the addition, however, of more vigorous motion of the hands in lnd cating the smaller nuances. Fornand Gillet distinguished himself in several difficult oboe, passages, but Mrs. Goldovsky's rendering of the three Mozart arias was somewhat less than Brilliant. Her voice, though warm in tone, was lacking in firmness at times, and seemed strained on the high notes. The extreme range of the first aria, however, (low A to high C) may account for some of this difficulty. Richard Burgin, concert master of the Boston Symphony, demonstrated his remarkable precision and control in the "Haffner" Serenade...
These stories were more than complaints about De Gaulle's intransigent character, which have been heard before. The new charge of anti-Americanism was added; and last week the British suspended the Fighting French weekly in London for its anti-American tone. (Actually the weekly's tone seemed to have been one of opposition to American interference in French affairs...
Henry Cowell: Tales of Our Countryside (All-American Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Composer Cowell at the piano; Columbia; 4 sides). Henry ("Tone Clusters") Cowell has been noted chiefly as a composer-pianist who plays his ear-wrenching works partly with his fists and elbows. This composition is in a surprising, melodious vein that sounds somewhat like Sibelius...