Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general criticisms must be made. The first violin section occasionally lacked precision in both tone and timing. Some deficiency in quality is excusable, yet the Music Club has demonstrated that there are enough first rate violinists around Cambridge. The few ragged entrances are unforgivable, however, and the responsibility must be laid to conductor Holmes. Judging by the success with which the Orchestra has filled its peripheral areas, I feel certain that the few failings of the central section can be eliminated...
Armstrong bowled them over in Chicago. His tone was unsurpassed for purity -and stayed that way even up around F and G above high C; he had such sheer power that he could blow as many as 300 ceiling notes in succession. The songs that came from his shiny horn ranged from the most mournful of blues to the explosive abandon of numbers like Muskrat Ramble...
...despite his soothing tone, he too seemed to be listening warily to the vast and delicately balanced machine. He announced that the winter months "are very decisive" and that officials of the Government, including the President, "were watching things closely...
Friends of the Cardinal listening to a broadcast of the trial in Vionna reported that a strange tone of voice, frequent lapses of memory, and faulty grammar in Mindszenty's testimony suggested he had been drugged. Krayer observed, howover, that psychological strain could cause the same symptoms...
...concert, under the auspices of the Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs will be given in the living room of Radcliffe's Agassiz Hall. Boykan will illustrate his lecture with performances of music by Schoenberg and other 12-tone composers...