Word: unison
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...attacks in the highest register were followed by harrowing crescendoes without the slightest wavering in pitch. Wolff, although he had no comparable solo, sensitively handled the shifting harmonies, providing the quartet with a sure base for their soaring and sometimes frantically demonic melodies. The piece is full of fast unison passages for the strings which would glaringly expose any inconsistency in rhythm or pitch. Chang and Hogan played best in these sections that would have frazzled the nerves and ears of lesser musicians...
...Pappas complaint lists 13 different charges against picketers in the Greater Boston area, including physical assault, breaking windows, use of obscenities and "chanting in unison...
...promotion campaign and hopes to begin national distribution within four months if things go well. Murdoch has confounded skeptics in the past, and the U.S. may indeed be vulnerable to foreign attack. As another Star story points out: "If all the Chinese jumped up and down in unison, the vibrations would cause a tidal wave that could engulf America...
...slow flicker of thousands of matches, the old spirit seems to emerge anew. At each concert, the hush of anticipation, the buzz of uncertainty and the applause of recognition are extensions of young people again listening to his words and looking for their meaning. Arms linked together, swaying in unison, chanting in time to the psychic current, a generation's anthem- learned in adolescence, sung in protest but not finally understood until periods of adult crisis-is being sung once more...
management, black v. white-for three days of inaugural celebration. The theme was reconciliation. U.S. District Court Judge Damon Keith, who is black, and State Supreme Court Justice John Swainson, who is white, administered the oath of office to Young in unison...