Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried not to resent the whole thing, like a good soldier. After all, he thought, what could you expect with a military man running the whole set-up? It was probably the efficient method. And perhaps this was the way to handle veterans; hit 'em with a crisp military tone and they'll comply before the daze wears off. "You can't treat these guys too soft," he could imagine one Harvard Medical Officer sneering. "They're used to the rough stuff...
...post-war model is smoother and more continuous. When not given to abandoned flights of the imagination and on tunes which are not so fast and gusty that they shake the instrumentalists out of all their ideas before the record is half through, Freeman's acrid, trembling tone and curious phrasing can, as in this case, produce tasteful and distinctive music...
...younger than his 66 years, made his first U.S. appearance in 15 years. In the audience were Violinists Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman and Nathan Milstein. Concertgoers used to the opulent Russian-style fiddling of Heifetz and Milstein had to pay sharp attention to Thibaud's delicate and smaller tone, but the effort was worth it. Thibaud played the violin solo in Lalo's melodious, tricky-rhythmed Symphonie Espagnole with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. He had to come on stage six times to take bows...
...protégé, 23-year-old Arnold Eidus of The Bronx. Eidus won the Thibaud International Competition for violinists last month. Says Thibaud proudly: "There were in this competition five Frenchmen, six Hungarians, three Hollanders-and one American. The American win. Such chic, such champagne in the tone. And technique! He never miss a note. It made me nervous. . . . You Americans, you don't know what talents you have...
...conceit [joke]. When we came to my mother, she looked on me, but knew me not, but asked the old man if he could tell no news of her child. ... The old man bid her patience; she should well hear. This was to her but the old tone, I suppose. I discerned the yearning bowels of a mother, yet notwithstanding I kept myself undiscovered awhile, till at last I made myself known with much joy and gladness...