Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonderful thing about the Brattle is that two nights later the tone is completely different. One of Wednesday night's selection's, "Dazed and Confused" became an instant hit when it arrived at cinemas last year. By the same director as the documentary, "Slacker," these films share the same setting, Austin, Texas...
...must admit to a certain bias coming to this recording, considering that I intensely disliked an earlier reading of the Brahms Piano Quartets by this same group. In particular, Isaac Stern is showing his age. As a violinist already infamous for his questionable intonation and tone quality, he dooms the ensemble even before recording began...
Emmanuel Ax returns with his rich and globular tone, but more often than not in this recording it acts as an obscuring miasmic veil, rather than a complement to the strings. He has an extremely heavy left hand and a matching right foot on the sustaining pedal. His efforts are more appropriate for piano concerti than for these subtly textured chamber works...
...former Currier resident, Yo-Yo Ma '76, I regret that I couldn't hear more of him through Ax's playing. Very uncharacteristically, he has to strain to force his tone through, especially in the Schumann...
...thrust and parry had a tone of urgency, it was because both sides were aware that the time to prepare their case was growing short. As expected, the judge set an early date for the opening of the trial: Sept. 19. No one could know for sure whether any more witnesses would turn up before then (Simpson was offering $500,000 for information that would prove his innocence), but the case may not turn on what people saw or didn't see. By the time of the trial, the court will have what is likely to be the most important...