Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glee Club under the direction of Harold Schmidt opened the concert with "Let Your Celestial Concerts All Unite" from the oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" by George Frederick Handel, rendered with the usual precision but without the usual roundness of tone. In the second number, "Gentle Johnny", and English folk song arranged for men's chorus, the tone was much better and the meaning of each line came out with the expressiveness, characteristic of the English type of melody. The best, however, of the first half of the program was "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence", and old French melody arranged...
Served up with showmanship, it made a jolly evening. In the orchestra pit a lusty Army band fiddled and blew. Between playlets, enlisted men did smart tap dances, takeoffs, tricks. The playlets themselves varied in tone and quality : the two lightest were the two best. Pfc. John B. O'Dea's Where E'er We Go was a lively stenographic report of talk in barracks, with some good cracks tossed in by the stenographer. Corporal Irving G. Neiman's Button Your Lip was a comic free-for-all about dazed rookies, daffy rumors and the presence...
Born. To Franchot Tone, 38, smooth, high-domed cinemactor, ex-husband of Joan Crawford; and Jean Wallace (Walasek) Tone, 19: a son; in Hollywood. Weight...
Evidence of the delicacy of the situation came in the President's prompt public repudiation of an OWI overseas broadcast which had categorized King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio as Fascists . The general tone the U.S. Government will maintain was rung in the Fireside Chat: "Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan-'unconditional surrender.' We will have no truck with Fascism in any way, in any shape or manner.. We will permit no vestige of Fascism to remain...
...other extreme of modernity was the electric violin employed in Bowles' "The Wind Remains." This device consists of a piece of wood, strung with violin strings, but lacking the sound-box. The vibrations of the strings are electrically amplified through a loudspeaker system, producing a very full tone. Bowles' composition featured several other unusual instruments--Chinese gong, temple blocks, chimes, auto horn, and a milk bottle tapped with a key, but unlike many experiments in exotic instrumentation, contained a lot of sincere writing...