Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...design but was unable to sell his ideas to Old Henry. When President Henry Ford II's new team took over after World War II, it realized the mistake and in 1946 hired Walker, then a freelance designer, to catch up to G.M. He quickly set the modern tone that helped head Ford back toward...
...Sanders Theatre. Under the leadership of conductor Attilio Poto, the orchestra performed a well-chosen program with unusual competence. The strings this year reclaim their position as the dominant section of the orchestra, restoring the balance which was so sorely lacking last year, and greatly improving the overall tone...
...performance of the young Hungarian violinist, Johanna Martzy, in the Brahms Violin Concerto was the major event of the afternoon. Substituting at the last moment, her reading stressed the dramatic qualities of the concerto without neglecting its lyricism. She has enough tone and technique to render the most difficult passages of this difficult work with seeming ease. The first movement cadenza was especially remarkable for its coherence, the sustained ending and orchestral entrance providing a particularly beautiful phrase...
...first piece on the program, Bach's Suite No. 3 in D, showed immediately the tremendous improvement in the violins, whose tone is beginning to sound professional. The 'cellos and basses sounded weak, as they did later in the concerto, and they failed to provide the strength and insistence so essential to the crucial bass line in both Bach and Brahms. It was also disappointing to have the "French overture" rhythms played incorrectly, losing all their force...
...orchestra has undoubtedly worked hard, and the effects of this effort show in terms of technical ability. It still plays with a stiffness which an amateur group should not have. The emphasis seems to remain with playing all the notes correctly and with good phrasing and tone. These considerations are important but they should not be allowed to substitute for awareness of the structural and musical aspects of a work. Some conception of a piece of music by both the conductor and the orchestra is essential to a really fine performance, and the H.R.O. is now capable of such performances...