Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...days the Voice, harsh, flat and earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial. It did not stop until Nov. 5. There, according to convention, it should have stopped for good, since a majority of the voters voted for a golden voice instead. But the election, far from striking the Voice dumb, gave it new inspiration...
...Broadcasting Symphony. I think you will find that for all its charm the symphony is but a pale copy of eighteenth-century models. Perfectly constructed in every way, harmonically and melodically and rhythmically irreproachable, still it is patently thin. It lacks the emotional guts that made a Mozart E-flat or Haydn 99th great. In short, it succeeds only as a technical imitation. Compare another early Schubert symphony, the Fourth or "Tragic," with its eighteenth-century counterpart, the Mozart G-minor. At first glance the two are strikingly alike. Their plan of construction is almost identical. Both are based...
...twelve deafening minutes he stood on a table before the roaring crowd. When they finally let him speak, his voice, with the flat, deep quality of a bass horn, touched off one outburst after another. Item by item he pilloried the acts of the Roosevelt Administration, interjecting a thunderous refrain: "That is the record of the New Deal. It is not the method of Democracy. I want to unite all people in America. I have no prejudice against any. I want to unite labor, industry and agriculture. I want to unite Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile." The crowd, waving...
...three made the recording last spring. The Contrasts: a blue Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance), a slow Piheno (Relaxation), an intricate Sebes (Fast Dance), in which Szigeti alternates between two fiddles, one purposely mistuned, and Goodman between A and B-flat clarinets. Composer Bartok stirs up an acrid dressing for his Hungarian tunes, but languid modern palates may like the dish...
...Hayward, June Preisser, Warners' bit player Ronald Reagan for male contrast, Fox Press Agent Jack Mulcahy to manage the outfit-all borrowed at their regular studio salaries instead of the higher price usually paid for loan-outs. Happy Agent Morrison quickly booked them in seven cities at a flat rate of $7,500 weekly, $3,300 of which was all Lolly...