Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloated while more than $1,000,000 worth of Strads (violins, violas, cellos: 20 instruments in all) were played at a single Carnegie Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Proceeds...
George Gershwin, Louis Gruenberg, John Alden Carpenter, most famous of U. S. nationalist composers, have avoided jazz symphonies, contenting themselves with writing rhapsodies, operas, ballets, tone-poems. Loudest pooh-poohing of their efforts has come, not from high-brow critics and musicians, but from swing and hot jazz fans who find this symphonic jazz stiff and imitative...
...plans to have a child, Paramount suggested that she compromise, adopt one. She declined. Ivan F. Cox, deposed secretary-treasurer of Harry Bridges' San Francisco longshoremen's union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism on the Pacific Coast, causing Mr. Cox to lose his job. Damages asked: $5,100,000. Mr. Cox announced that if he won his case he would...
...rumored that Professor Copeland does not like the use of the word "party" employed by telephone operators. According to the dictionary the word means "a number of people united for amusement," and criticizes the operators for saying in so confident a tone, "Here is your party...
...proscenium as Ethiopia's Ras Amonasro in Aida. Looking club-footed in high-heeled stage shoes, Mr. Tagliabue was not so bad that the critics had to boo him. But Gina Cigna (Aida) sang more than one of her Numi Pietàs a quarter of a tone flat, while greying Giovanni Martinelli (Radames) eked out aging vocal chords with a veteran's caginess...