Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three movements of Haydn's Symphony No. 2 in B-flat, the last work performed, the orchestra sounded as though it had not yet calmed down after the Hindemith. The balances were poor and the tone in general ragged. Mr. Senturia held the group together with difficulty, and the attacks were consistently bad. The second movement failed to sing, and the menuetto did not have the grace and style which is usually the Orchestra's strongest point...
Then, miraculously, the finale emerged as if it belonged to a different piece. The orchestra played in true chamber fashion, always together, with ease and spirit. The loose ends were gathered in, and the tone regained its customary clarity. The coda, in Haydn's most humorous vein, added just the right amount of playfulness to a sparkling performance. Even after the disappointments of the first movements, this was worth waiting...
...Despite its frivolous name-its members are movie studio musicians-the Hollywood Quartet is a first-class outfit, and it meets this Everest of chamber music on its own heights. It lacks the bite, power and drive of the Budapest, whose Beethoven performances are unique, but its tone is warmer. In the haunting sighs and groans of the tragic No. 14, the Hollywood dips beneath the surface to the inner life of a matchless work...
Certainly he offers no evidence that organized mental health programs reduce the number of emotional disturbances, cut the sale of benzedrine and Miltown, bring achievement test scores closer to aptitude scores, improve collegewide grades, or raise the intellectual tone of academic institutions. The friends of psychiatry can well argue that such programs have never had enough support to achieve such comprehensive results. They justify their program by referring to the help they have given individual patients. But faith healers, religious missionaries, and Norman Vincent Peale, Inc. have had as many individual cures as the psychiatrists, a fact which should give...
...good judge, too." He has mastered the difficult art of patter singing, and it is a pity he did not take the patter role in Pinafore, Sir Joseph Porter. Sir Joseph was played by Jeffery Lewins; he has a fine manner but lacks the driving acidity of tone the patter songs demand. He was more successful speaking than singing...