Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listener to participate, beyond conscious thought, in this act. Beethoven's Violin Concerto is a work secular beyond question. But when, in the first movement, the simple theme subtly changes, the mind is lifted and rent-not because the strings have zipped to another key, but by a tone of divinity conveyed through the composer's growing deafness by an inspiration inexplicable to the mind. The spirituals are perhaps the greatest single burst of such inspiration, communicated, not through deafness, but through the darkness of minds which knew nothing of formal music and very little of the language...
...vast fields of cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive-a land alive with all the elements of lonely beauty, except compassion. In this deep night of land and man, the singers saw visions; grief, like a tuning fork, gave the tone, and the Sorrow Songs were uttered...
...rebels came down in neighboring Colombia and others surrendered, Venezuelans learned what the shooting was about. A faction of hot-blooded Army impatients (who had helped put Betancourt and his Action Democrática Party in power only a year ago) wanted a reshuffle. Their chief objection: the leftist tone of the moderate Betancourt Government...
...players, from the Harvard orchestra, under the guiding hand of arranger Maxwell Harvey '44, played snatches of suites by Purcell and Handel and a Lully concerto during the frequent changes of scene. Instead of the usual discordant effect of incidental music, last night's aided and abetted the harmonious tone of the staging...
...Harvard's hardest-hitting opponents of scholarship in-a-vacuum. "Do you know that of the 22 hundred million people in the world, 15 hundred million don't read at all, or read a script which doesn't use an alphabet?" he went on, in a tone of bitterness and shock which made it plain that his fight against illiteracy and incomplete communication is a root fact of his life...