Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amazingly likeable student songs and a scattering of cleverly parodying lines compensated for the spotty group work of dancing choruses and conditioning classes. Climax of the show was Lucia Snyder's "Wellesley Blues" sung with two demand encores by Carolyn Rochl. Quite as applaudable in a merrier tone were the theme "Talk of the Town" and "I Went to College." Dorothy Weaver, who wrote and sang "When Love Is in Your Heart," comes in for honorable mention. Running through Marjorie Wolfe's brainchild were the thin themes of The New Yorkers visiting the college to do a write...
...highest order"-the great republicans Harriet had come so far to see. She saw everybody. Congressmen "reposed themselves" by Harriet's fireside. "Mr. Clay, sitting upright on the sofa, with his snuffbox ever in his hand, would discourse for many an hour in his even, soft, deliberate tone. . . . Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of laughter . . . would illuminate an evening. Mr. Calhoun, the cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and never could be extinguished, would come in sometimes." She visited Madison...
Peace years have always meant student life at its very richest exuberance to Hollis. From the close of the Revolution, through five major wars, the tone of life has little changed. The misarranged flues, scattering smoke through rooms, lavatory and halls, the mice, the gradual sagging of the wooden floors has always meant that the atmosphere that was Harvard's was very much Hollis'. And the affinity of local characters to this old structure only added to the legend...
...however, with Columbia's Budapest Quartet series. Here are four players, each a first rate soloist in his own right, welded together into the kind of unit you find in a good crew or ball team. Other quartets have the same precision, and occasionally the same warmth of tone, but the Budapest people have that extra something that brings the music to life and gives it symphonic dimensions...
Chamber music, unlike orchestral works, loses practically nothing in the process of broadcasting or recording. Quartets weren't written for performance in big barns like Symphony Hall where the body of tone gets drowned before it reaches the audience. They were intended for private after-dinner gatherings, and the next best thing to playing them yourself is a good broadcast or recording that can fill the room with the living string tone. Even with the best equipment, a "canned" symphony loses something by reproduction. The dynamics of a quartet, however, are perfectly suited to the normal range of a loudspeaker...