Word: tempos
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...grass court all year but had suddenly developed a case of what Ellsworth Vines called "ptomaine nerves" (nervous stomach). Lank, lackadaisical Jack Kramer slouched around the court; pigeontoed, muttering, gesticulating Segura crouched like a predatory biped, gave everything Kramer hit a run for its money. Kramer, rejecting the tempo agitato, dropped the first set 2-6, suddenly found the touch and raced through the next three sets (6-4, 7-5, 6-3). He served 15 aces and was practically infallible overhead...
...bandmasters had the horrors last week. A U.S. Army band (the 418th Army Air Forces Band from the Technical School at Yale) had suddenly, and disconcertingly, got rhythm. When it swung down the line blaring such hallowed items as John Philip Sousa's Stars & Stripes Forever in jive tempo, sober listeners began to wonder what U.S. brass-band music was coming to. Obviously, there was an Afro-Saxon in the woodpile...
...State Department further elaborated: "The music should not only represent the outstanding nations, but it should also agree with the spoken words, and make an artistic whole by contrast in mood and tempo...
...Harvard Glee Club Radcliffe Choral Society sang tour choruses from Bach's B -minor Mass: Kyrie, cum Saneto Spiritu, Crucifixus, and Dona Nobis. Despite the difficulties of outdoor singing the chorus sounded full and resonant, and had a good deal of "life" and enthusiasm for the music; but the tempo was noticeably ragged at places, especially in the very rapid and difficult Cum Sancto Spiritu. Also, there was insufficient shading of dynamics, although this may have resulted from the necessity of singing loud all this time in order to be heard outdoors...
...first half of the Sanders Theatre Concert was also under Woodworth's direction. In the Brandenberg Concerto No.3 the orchestra was apparently not quite agreed on the tempo, especially at the beginning of the last movement, but the Prelude to Bach's "Ich Hatte Viel Bekuemmernis" was played with profound emotional depth and understanding of the music...