Word: unison
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From the piano bench, Menahem Pressler glances over his shoulder at his two companions, violinist Isidore Cohen and cellist Bernard Greenhouse, each seemingly lost in concentration. Yet the audience hears what the musicians themselves feel: that they are not three performers, but one--one spirit bringing three instruments into unison. Each man is sensitive to the varying moods of his two companions: if one shows signs of interpreting the piece in a special way, the other two pick up on it and follow his lead. "The raising of an eyebrow, the way a phrase is constructed," explains Greenhouse, "can tell...
...crowd didn't need any such cheerleading. Without any outside prodding, the two sides of the stadium periodically broke into chants. I don't mean just the band and some of the rowdier students, but at least 10,000 warm bodies on each side of the field, in unison and without direction...
...Father witness our covenant, and out of the harmony of our differences may He grant us unison, in will and wisdom, to keep...
...photographs are remarkable. There they all are, the gray brothers, stretching, playing, howling in unison with Fox and his human children, fighting mock battles. Or just sitting, looking out at the world, with half-closed, quizzical eyes, a compelling mixture of Old Dog Tray and Ming the Merciless...
Before Saturday afternoon's game, the Harvard women's soccer team huddled together and screamed in unison, "Blast B.U.!" And that's exactly what they...