Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These qualities that make Mozart so universally appealing are also responsible for his difficulty to perform. Happily, though, David Sogg is an extraordinarily gifted musician. His tone is clear and pure, his technique marvelous. Few regard the bassoon as an exceptionally agile instrument, but Sogg demonstrated that it can be precisely that. The rapid passagework and the herioc leaps between the uppermost and lowermost registers were rendered with astounding lucidity. More importantly, his fine sense for the subtle lyricism of Mozart was obvious, especially in the second movement, and throughout the piece he allowed the music to express itself with...
...especially evident. Here Peter Lurye managed the ensemble and the balance between the soloist and his orchestra successfully and the overall effect was quite enchanting. Unfortunately, Lurye did not always restrain his musicians sufficiently. They occasionally covered the sound of the bassoon, which with its low pitch and delicate tone was all too vulnerable to such attacks. Despite this serious problem, Sogg stole the show in the end, and had to return to the stage several times to acknowledge the enthusiastic and well-deserved applause...
Ranked with the leading young British classical actors, Alan Howard plays the title role with hurricane force. While his vocal range is narrow, his delivery of the lines is imperious in tone and cloudless in clarity. Heroic in bearing, he also conveys a sensual relish in the blood sport of war. Best of all, he tempers Coriolanus' abrasive arrogance by showing the soldier's moral consistency. After his mother has urged him to placate the plebs, he counters...
...Cabinet (James Schlesinger), says Harris, required a bit of educating. "In our original days." says she, "he addressed me regularly as 'young lady,' in a tone that I did not find necessarily overwhelming. Now he says 'Pat' or 'Madame Secretary.' " Schlesinger was similarly given to irritating Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps by calling her "lass," a practice he has also abandoned. The Green Book, the Social List of Washington, maintains extraordinarily strict rules. Separated couples like White House Aide Hamilton Jordan and his wife are excised from The Green Book by the register's mistress, Jean Shaw Murray, daughter...
...seems to be a spontaneous impulse on the part of a guest, who ideally should be a young woman. Men sometimes go first, but, if they do, are generally looked upon as show-offs or worse. This may seem reliquary chauvinism, but veterans of such evenings insist that the tone is somehow wrong unless a lady or ladies present lead the way, certifying the splash-in as not merely a male stratagem to get the women present to undress...