Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come for the Concerto Grosso. Yet, like all great composers, Corelli avoided a dogmatic conception of musical form, and within the twelve concerti of Opus 6 there are twelve different variations on the general slow-fast-slow-fast and fast-slow-fast shapes. Quadri elicits a lovely shimmering string tone from the English Baroque Orchestra. (Westminster...
...should ask. In a sense this was the kind of foreign-policy debate, unheard amid the oratory on the H-bombs and Joe Smiths of the 1956 campaign, that was long overdue. In an other sense, however, it was now for the House and Senate to relate the tone and the length of the debate to the critical condition, to bear in mind especially that the Communists will interpret undue delay in approving the bulk of the Eisenhower plan to mean that the U.S. is deeply divided about the wisdom of opposing Communism with both force and dollars...
...Union message last week, he was still penciling away at his text. Bent on making the speech express his own outlook and aspirations, he had done most of the writing and rewriting himself, reworking key passages again and again. The result was so balanced, so moderate in tone that it stirred no notable reaction; moreover, Ike was saving his specific legislative recommendations for this week's budget message (sure to make Congress come alive, since the $72 billion proposed budget is the biggest in the nation's peacetime history...
...hunter (to take their pulses), welcomed a snowstorm to help demonstrate one of his favorite maxims: "Hard work never killed a healthy man." Unpuffingly shoveling snow piled behind his Beacon Street office, Dr. White advised all healthy folks to take exercise in keeping with their age and general physical tone, build up to exertion slowly if they're soft, certainly not refrain from snow shoveling if their only ailment is just being 70. Said the doctor with some concern: "We are already becoming a soft race dependent on gadgets which are not likely to protect our youth from...
...guest happens to be someone as impulsive as Leonard Bernstein, he may even kiss his cheeks. For the rest, the concertmaster's job is done out of the public view, preparing the violins for the effects the conductor wants, marking the bowings, in general setting the tone of the orchestra...