Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happiness of any group of people proceed from the same fundamental roots as the joys and sorrows of man as a universal form. Coffin's idea is that the distinctive characteristics of a single human being, such as a Maine fisherman, are the qualities which lend a positive tone to poetic translations of human nature. One cannot write convincingly of a universal type of human being, for even if it existed, it would lack the compelling reality which inspires poetry. The force and enthusiasm behind a poem is one factor which determines its ability to convey an impression...
...technical standpoint, there is no doubt one of the finest. Though every music magazine in the country has taken a shot at explaining his "Apple Annie" method of blowing out his checks while playing (distinctly unorthodox), or panning him for it, the still true that he has good tone and really gets around on his horn...
Since the site of the orations was shifted from Sanders Theatre to the Stadium in 1905, they have lost whatever serious tone they had retained up to that time. In 1910 humorist Frank Sullivan was the Ivy Orator, and was followed two years later by Robert Benchley...
Fritz Reiner, world-famous conductor of the Pittsburgh symphony, stated a short time ago that he was offering the post of solo trumpet to Manny Klein, now playing with Frank Trumbauer's orchestra, because he felt Klein's vibrato "much preferable to the stiff and dead tone used, as a rule by symphony...
...classical feeling on the way in which a trumpet should be played. For years, this reviewer has been getting in trouble with certain classical acquaintances because he insisted that the average trumpet man in a symphony orchestra plays without feeling, without life, concentrating on getting a nice, pure classical tone--which doesn't convey the slightest bit of emotion or feeling. Same idea as boiled and ordinary water. One may be a little more impure, but it certainly is more palatable...