Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra, under Senturia, has never sounded better. Full and rich without being heavy, they displayed a tone which can come only from a coherent, yet relaxed ensemble...
...addition, one side is devoted to works for men's voices, and these, because of either the acoustics of Busch-Reisinger or the chorus' composition, have a propensity to descend into the cellar, producing a sort of grovelling and definitely un-vocal tone...
...case of Composer Arnold Schoenberg, creator of the twelve-tone system, Avant-Gardist Kokoschka found a personality streak that he shared: a sense of persecution by the crowd. "When we talked," Kokoschka recalled last week, "it was only about the stupidity of society. We were both despised at the time. Schoenberg received many rotten eggs in the face, and I used to be called a jailbird...
Lion's Share. Despite its good grey editorial tone, the Times is a lively and politely relentless competitor in the scramble for subscribers and ads. From 1947 through last year, the daily Times's circulation climbed from 543,583 to 638,006, the Sunday Times from 1,092,054 to 1,285,732-and the two papers increased their lion's share of the total advertising carried by all major New York papers from 23.4% to 30.6%. Pitted against the Times, the rival Herald Tribune floundered badly. Its circulation held steady at about half the Times...
...stage blackout in each scene is inevitable, but the preliminaries vary in length and tone in accordance with the social position and temperament of the protagonists. The content however, is remarkably the same...