Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gross began with the C-minor Phantasie of Mozart. It was played with care and restraint, except perhaps in the pedalling, which seemed excessive. The piano, poor in tone and tune, may have been the cause of occasional blurs, especially in the lower register. Certain of Mozart's dynamic indications were given too extreme an interpretation. Una corda should probably be more sparingly used in Mozart, and Beethoven. Here again, some inadequacy in the piano itself may have been responsible...
...published sermons and books, such as Peace with God, contain false doctrines, sometimes false in se, at other times false by being incomplete. They fall within the scope of the Index." ¶ "Catholics should not tune in on Billy's radio and television programs. So well constructed are his sermons, so interwoven is true and false doctrine, so forceful and persuasive is his delivery, that even a fairly well instructed Catholic may be deceived...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by Attilio Poto, gave its best concert of the season Friday night in Sanders Theatre. The group played with more spirit and cohesion, and was in better tune than usual...
Made far more readable since then, but still the bane of thousands of music students, and still printing articles like "A Thought for the Piano Tuner," Etude by last fall was badly out of tune. Despite a peak circulation of 250,000 in 1919, Etude had been carried at a loss for some 30 years on the books of Presser's highbrow Bryn Mawr music publishing firm (owned since Presser's death in 1925 by the Presser Foundation, which also operates a home for aged music teachers...
From the heyday of radio's first spectacular giveaways, quiz producers have stacked the cards to make the game as entertaining as possible. Stop the Music telephoned listeners, apparently at random, to give them a chance to name the "mystery tune" and win a growing jackpot, but by the time the broadcast started, the calls were stacked up on the switchboard and auditioned by a program staffer, who put them on the air in the most dramatic order. Just in case enough listeners might not know the mystery tune, tips on its name were planted regularly in Walter Winchell...