Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Taneyev, the tone sounds tinny, possibly as a result of a poor pressing, but the timing compensates. An emphasis on timing is the most important characteristic of the 1980s, at least according to Mickey Rooney. For instance, it's time for "Mickey Rooney macarooney," he claims. In a similar vein, timing and tempo and rhythm can make up for poor intonation (what happens if you play out of tune), harshness of tone and lack of musical expressiveness, which occurs when performers forget to write their emotions in performance on flashcards to be held up by page turners when appropriate...
Wanda Wilkomirska gives a moving performance, heavy on vibrato (shaking a note to seduce one's boyfriend) and tone. She executes displaced accents, syncopation (extending a beat over the natural accent) and ricochet bowings with excellent technique...
...feisty brother-in-law, retains influence over Ol' Cap'n by posing as the stereotypical obsequious cotton-picker. Brown swaggers and staggers through the play's increasingly disjointed action with true comic aplomb, bawling "There's More Than One Way of Skinnin' a Cat" with reckless disregard for his tone-deafness, and applying his sense of dramatic timing to the moments that his cohorts largely let slip...
...such as heating and parking. The program has generated an average of 13,000 letters annually in the past two years from IBM's 195,000 U.S. employees. About 70% of the questions are fielded by the personnel department. Says Walton E. Burdick, vice president of personnel: "The tone of the queries ranges all over the lot. Some are testy, but most are not." Another IBM program, called Open Door, encourages face-to-face meetings between executives and employees with something on their minds...
...teens, joining the army and studying to become a doctor. Maybe it was his training at Vienna and the Paris Conservatoire before he was 12. In any event, the charm of Mintz's recording of the three pieces mentioned disappears in the others' lack of diversity in phrasing and tone color. Mintz sometimes plays too fast, too strong or too rubato. Some of his accents and tenutos (notes slightly lengthened for effect) are either too numerous or unnatural. Mintz' basically solid performance will give the impression of dragging even at rapid tempi because of unnecessary emphases...