Word: pianissimos
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...point of articulation. This had the regrettable effect of making Schubert's structural joinings even more obvious than they are. Shure took the piece too seriously, not leaving room for enough of that Vienese Gemutlich and Empfindsamkeit that are Schubert, special charms. Shure's performance had plenty of pianissimo but not enough sparkle...
...dead Euridice, and in the third act consoles Orfeo with four lengthy passages. But the opera also sparkles with tuneful solos, and concludes with a scene of effective operatic violence: the Bacchanalians who have poisoned Orfeo are swept away by a tidal wave; the curtain falls to an eerie, pianissimo timpani roll, with only the dead couple on the empty stage...
...instantly captivating; the orchestra plodded along sounding labored, even leaden. The second movement contained some beautiful moments. In the finale the orchestra caught fire, and Grossman's brilliance served him well. The movement was marred only by the orchestra's repeated failure to play the main theme truly pianissimo...
...President Frank Stanton, discovered that Stanton was "something of a night owl himself." CBS and American jointly formulated the music show. Its records were to be, in Smith's words, "on a high, not necessarily highbrow, level." The commercials were to be soft-sell, the disk jockeys positively pianissimo, and everything uniform nationwide...
...took advantage of the situation to reveal a dynamic power and expressiveness that no one who heard the first half of the concert would have guessed the singers possessed. Particularly striking were the crescendo-decrescendos in the Sanctus, the contrasts in the Benedictus "Osanna in Excelsis," and especially the pianissimo "Dona Nobis Pacem" in which the singers produced one of those beautiful, sensuous sounds that are pleasurable in themselves, independent of melodic or harmonic movement...