Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kroll Opera House this week to hear him report on the war's progress. Though the British knew he would be there, no bombs fell on Berlin that day. The Führer was in good form. He spoke seriously, with less virulence than usual, and his tone was one of confidence. For the German people his speech was a good bucker-up, if they needed one; for foreigners it was good propaganda...
...after his appointment the Daily Express bitterly attacked the tone of "everything's fine'' sounded in many British journals, adding: "Bunk merchants are at it again. . . . Among other fairy tales we read yesterday were...
...life savings to pay their salaries and the rental of Carnegie Hall for a night. Conductor Klemperer's concert nearly filled the hall with people, and did fill it with satisfactory sounds of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Hindemith. In a not entirely successful attempt to gain brilliance of string tone, Conductor Klemperer had his fiddlers and violists on their feet throughout the concert. As definitely as any conductor could, Otto Klemperer had proved what he intended to. He hulked off, made ready to return to California and seclusion for the summer...
...soldierly tone of his book will remind Americans that, even if they have forgotten it in peacetime, they are one of the world's great warrior nations, that the whole continental seaboard is a great field of their battles from Quebec and Louisburg to Chapultepec; that the pitting of Americans against Americans resulted in the world's most terrible battles until World War I-on the rolling farmlands of Gettysburg, in the narrow valley of Antietam Creek, on the hills at Chickamauga, in the oak and pine thickets of Virginia's Wilderness...
...recorded during the Beethoven cycle last year. The studio is probably more satisfactory for radio broadcasting than a concert-hall, as it is arranged so that every note comes over with perfect clarity. But for a permanent recording, one wants resonance as well as clarity, and the tone in this album is so flat and dead as to make the set very unpleasant. In the Walter recording, by Columbia, on the other hand, the tone is full and rich. And while the performance is fairly conventional, it does not surge ahead the way Toscanini's does. Except for an annoying...