Word: toned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dramatic Club presented its spring group of one-act plays in the Hasty Pudding Theatre last evening. The performance showed the result of some extremely competent coaching by the new director, Mr. S. A. Eliot, in a general evenness of acting and quietness and realism of tone. Exception might possibly be taken to the sombre quality of all four of the plays produced. The curtain rose on a death bed, but the general atmosphere of gloom which dominated the second and third of the plays made the first piece seem almost a merry trifle. It is called "The Harbour...
...France." The writer of the editorial then goes on to criticise these men who are pusillanimous enough to prefer to risk their lives in the relief of suffering rather than serve gloriously in their respective college regiments, even as he. The editorial is written throughout in a highly moral tone of admonition, of gentle rebuke, but it is nothing less than a serious attack on the ambulance drivers who have failed so lamentably to grasp what the writer calls nobly "the one loyalty" and "the greater cause." Perhaps I had better give his own words...
...reproach to the chorus or its work to point out that the tone is sometimes light and lacking in body, for the lack is not due to faulty singing or careless training, but solely to the physical immaturity of the singers. This must be taken for granted, and the performance judged on artistic grounds...
Except for this purely physical shortcoming, the tone of the chorus is of excellent quality. The intonation, even in treacherous passages, is so accurate as to seem remarkable. The attacks are notably prompt and clear, even by professional standards, and the too-often neglected endings are no less exact than the attacks. The singing of this chorus achieves apparently quite as a matter of course, two of the less easily attainable goals of all choruses, large or small, amateur or professional--smoothness and clearness...
...interpretation of the chorus is free from blemish--a great achievement for a group of amateurs, and still a greater for their trainer. It is again surely no reproach to point out that these students have not the wide range of light and shade, with subtly adapted tone-qualities and suggestions of emotional depth that have come to expect from the best choral societies and professional choruses. Such flexibility and sympathy bespeak a mature view of life in general and familiarity with a large musical repertory in particular, which even fairly earnest students cannot usually attain in their late teens...