Word: forcefullness
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Father of modern orchestration was an excitable red-headed Frenchman named Hector Berlioz, who lived in the middle 19th Century. From him such romantic composers as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, such impressionists as Claude Debussy, learned many a trick of the trade. Erratic but forceful, Composer Berlioz, an original in...
As for almost 20 minutes he plays through a Chopin Polonaise and Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, the camera returns again & again to watch his forceful hands. When he has finished, a small child scampers up to him, followed by her parents. He greets them, agrees to play as...
As the beginning of Lent last week reminded Christians throughout the world of the last days on earth of the Prince of Peace, churchmen were everywhere considering with renewed soberness the tenuous prospect of peace on earth. Though many Protestant clergymen are out & out pacifists, most Catholics have been restrained...
There were elements of ambiguity in this forceful program, but it was the most clean-cut which France has achieved since the resurgence of German strength and weakening of Italian support of Austria.
A cinema star's face is her fortune, and her agent gets 10%. When early this month Agent Myron Selznick tried to double Cinemactress Loretta Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged...