Word: pianissimos
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...Vagabond stood irresolute, no, he was sitting--and silent. Just then the music swung into pianissimo and the violinist rendered a vocal solo. The Vagabond listened, hoping, nay praying, for a suggestion in the words that might provide a topic for small talk, however banal. The violinist's voice was excellent....What was he saying...
...whole the performance was characterized by a clarity of line and a delicacy of shading which brought every nuance and tint into relief. Even in the difficult counterpoints among the choruses or between certain voices and the orchestra, there was no blurring of the melody. From the most delicate pianissimo to a stirring fortissimo, from the richest chords to the most varied countempointing, every voice came out with a clear, sustained sweet quality rarely if ever found in any other college choral societies. Great praise must be given to Mr. G. W. Woodworth, who trained both clubs in the absence...
...line at the doors of the Manhattan Opera House, wherein Bernardo de Muro, famed Italian tenor, sang last week in Trovatorc. Next day, Manhattanites of other nationalities read with astonishment of the singing of this De Muro-how his allegro was as clear as the bells of- Capri, his pianissimo tender as the mandolins of Sorrento and how the great assembly of his countrymen in the galleries, pit and loges of the old opera house rose shouting, with cries of "Ancora," "Bravo" and "Yeah." De Muro, they read, is known as the greatest tenor in Italy. He lives in Milan...
...Oglethorpe under the Espionage act in 1917, whether it were true that this conductor was a "hypnotist," whether he could interpret Debussy, whether he wagged his head. They noted that he had a good back. They noted that every now and then, when he wanted to indicate a sudden pianissimo, he shot his left hand into the air, palm flat, in the way of one who hoists a heavy tray or thrusts a torch aloft. For the rest, his gestures were continent. He led Debussy's Nuages; Honegger's Pacific 231, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy. Like...
...night in 1886 they were giving Aida at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House. A new conductor had the baton. He showed nervousness; the great house stirred uneasily. He bungled a pianissimo passage, he brought in his strings raggedly; a sinister sibilant flew round the galleries. "Hiss-sss-sss" went the fine senhorinas, "sss-sss-sss" went the fierce senhores. Distraught, unmanned, hearing a crooked death in every venomous 'sss, that new conductor broke his baton over his knee, fled weeping from the house. From his lowly place among the cellos rose up then a young Italian, scuttled...