Word: unison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great composers have not neglected the fanfare. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote one for four trumpets in the Christmas Cantata. Beethoven followed the traditional military style of trumpets in unison in Fidelia. Other flourishes are found in Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn...
...Fire Riders) and the Borodin Polovetzian Dances from "Prince Igor." The flawlessness of their singing, their round, full warm tone all made for a perfect appearance with Dr. Koussevitsky. As an astute listener by my side sagely summed it up. "If they only knew how to bow in unison, they'd be machines...
...Work, work, work--the boys are marching" is the new slogan for the healthy-looking ladies of Smith these days, with the announcement from Northampton that every girl will "work or train" this summer. "This summer must be constructive," they chant in unison...
...been giggling and having fun, and so had they. And then their voices rose in "Fair Harvard". There were a thousand of them or more. Pink faces, a sea of them...and young. Their voices rose in unison. I thought of thousands of other young faces in Europe's war (we weren't in It then) whose voices weren't raised in song. Whose voices would never be raised in song again...
...only compensation for the Germans was that by holding out for three weeks after their ultimate doom was sealed they prevented all the Red Armies in the south from striking in unison. Said Berlin: "The conclusion of this military venture supplies the epilogue to a military undertaking whose history will be written with the blood of heroic fighters...