Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gilbert and Sullivan is a world bearing no great relation to any other theatrical or musical art. If the proper romping tone is perfectly sustained throughout, any failings become trivial; if it is not, the audience will be making paper planes of the programs before the production is ten minutes...
Director Richard Grand and most of his cast have mastered this tone; they maintain an almost perfect balance between the mock-serious and the ham. Some of the principals were weak singers, and the articulation--an important quality in Gilbert and Sullivan--was uneven in both productions. But the G. and S. Players always know what they are doing, and they seem to take pleasure...
...decision was his own. It was the result of several listless weeks in Washington, weeks which Stevenson spent preparing memoranda and submitting them to departments actually uninterested in what he had to say. Official Washington's tone was set by Sherman Adams's incredible remark that Adlai Stevenson was brought to the capital not because of his intelligence, but because the people seemed to want it. He was window-dressing...
...soloists, Grace Hunter, Wesley Copplestone, and Thomas Beveridge '58, were uniformly excellent in quality of style and technique and in intonation. The main problem they faced was that Miss Hunter's tone was noticeably larger and stronger than either of the others'. Singing from in back of the orchestra, the men's voices sounded somewhat thin. Curiously enough, this was more apparent in the solo arias than in the ensembles, where the balance was much better. Miss Hunter performed with spirit and facility, and her singing with the chorus was particularly effective. Mr. Beveridge, the only non-professional soloist...
...Orchestra has attained a level of proficiency where such defects as timid openings and sloppy horn passages should be removed in rehearsal. Except for these lapses, the Orchestra played well, and its wind solos continued to be exceptionally lovely. The strings require more warmth and feeling in their glossy tone, but, as a section, they sound very well. The full orchestra, playing alone, was too constrained for such a highly dramatic work...