Word: fortissimo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vague air of triangle is developed in the obvious ways. The singing is exploited by an interminable series of shots in which Douglas cracks various glass objects with his baritone fortissimo, and the final scene when he breaks up an opera by getting drunk on potions designed to calm him down before his entrance. This latter episode gets its effect by his drunken degradation--a type of humor that is not attractive. Finally there are several subplots to bolster the obvious inadequacies of the main story: Douglas is the proprietor of a failing wreckage business; his father...
...Rubinstein: "That was the kitchen work, and you don't cook in public." In July, Piatigorsky went to the coast for a second session. Then in Chicago, they took two sessions to test Ravinia's temperamental microphones. Said Pianist Rubinstein: "With this mike, I play what is fortissimo and drown Jascha. But what should I do? Play mouse? I go crazy if I hold back and go nibble-nibble; fortissimo is not like a mouse...
...chamber opera, and in the cavernous wastelands of the Boston Opera House, the small mass of sound produced was pretty well lost. It was hard enough for most of the paying customers to hear the artists, let alone detect any difference subtler than that between a pianissimo and a fortissimo...
Although the Nassau group boasted an exceptionally impressive tonor section, its frequently "late" basses often helped create the suggestion of shouting, rather than meat fortissimo, which already followed failure to use the covered tone device. This technique works for mellowness at the expense of some strength...
...Chanin) is the new season's first-and may well be its worst-play. It is a farce about a young couple struggling to get by on $28.50 a week, and a plunging publisher who sniffs a best-seller in their story. Hitting a hundred wrong notes, all fortissimo, The Magic Touch is just about as nitwitted as it is nerve-racking...