Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to say that one instrument is more difficult than another, but the method of tone production in the brass is certainly extremely treacherous and touchy. The hornets or trumpeter is dependent on subtonic adjustments of his breath and lip muscles rather than on the finger and arm motions, which most other musicians employ. The difficulty of tone production is especially important when the player must enter after a long period of rest. In music of the pre-Romantic period--for example, Beethoven's First Symphony in the next Friday and Saturday symphony concerts--the player must continually pick...
...treachery of tone production the conspicuous sonority of the brass and the fact that the player is usually alone on his part, and one can see that a small slip of the lip becomes terrifically embarrassing. An occurrence at a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert recently has a very interesting bearing on this subject. Just before a long passage for muted strings a very important member of the first violin section lost his mute. He searched for it frantically, finally was forced to play the whole passage unmated; but the total effect was not too shocking...
...Pope's first encyclical traditionally establishes the spiritual tone of his reign. Pius' was to be the restoration of the faith and the re-establishment of the family group. But to non-Catholics the chief interest in the Pontiff's 13,000 words was not spiritual but political, and politically, even though it despaired of peace now, the encyclical was extraordinary...
...learned amateurs. Lalique wanted a larger audience, so he turned to glass, presently managed to reproduce his designs in quantity without lowering their quality. Noteworthy were the four-part molds he devised to permit deeper reliefs, the color effects he achieved by varying the size and shape of one-tone glass. Soon he was designing everything from glass crucifixes to glass radiator caps. "Lalique" became a word for glass at its French best...
...miss hearing Crosby play some slow blues. They are really something. Irving, Fazola, the clarinet player, has a blues tone which is so full and clear that Mr. Goodman just shuts up when anybody mentions his name. Jesse Stacy, Goodman's old piano man, is with the band, and he alone is worth the trip down there. The rest of the band--the trick stuff of drummer Ray Baudue and bassist Bobby Haggert, you probably know about already, so there isn't any need to review it. Incidentally, the latter is the author of the very popular "What...