A few years back the word crescendo was really in vouge. Its seems like everyone was using and using it wrong!! I can't tell you how many sportscasters love saying...a rise to a crescendo...this is wrong a crescendo is a rise. I was dumbfounded when I come on this site and see that the main topic uses the word the wrong way AND its an article about music! ARGGG

DHP

Personally, I'd like to see more cars with musical terms as their car names, like 'Crescendo'--I've only seen Hyundai's 'Sonata'. Come on, GM, how about 'Vivace', 'Presto', 'Fortissimo', 'Andante', 'Appassionata','Fantasy', 'Reverie', 'Scherzo', 'Pizzicato', any other good car names? Now don't use them for baby names!!

I think the next big Chevy 10 ton truck will be called the Chevy Emperor.

Perhaps we could bring back the Edsel and call it the Ford Viola? After all, both are big and bulky, kinda cool for a few minutes, but ultimately out of their depth when stacked up against real cars/instruments...

(See? You can make a viola joke out of anything!)

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Many, many times I see on the web someone say something like "you do this, then you do that, and viola!"

I drive a Rilassando

Sam, there's a restaurant in Cedarhurst, Long Island, called La Viola--apparently, the food is actually quite good (now now!!)

By the way, the car titled 'Accelerando' was scrapped (pardon the pun)--the drivers were caught speeding in all 50 states--(rim shot)--oh, and I suppose the 'Ritardando' model is designed for cautious drivers who slow down at every corner. The 'Sforzando' model comes with free accents (ugh!) and detailing. I kinda like the 'Maestro' design--gives you a sense of full control! For you Leonard Bernstein fans, the new 'Duchino' is due out in 2008 (with a free Peter Duchin sampler cd) and for all you Scriabin fans, the 'Volando' is on the assembly line. (Prestissimo volando is from his Fourth Piano Sonata)

The trouble with the Maestro model, though, is that all the other cars pretend they can't see you, refuse to drive at the speed you want, and run you off the road the first time you turn your back.

Oh, and there's a clause in the fine print when you buy it requiring you to spend 50% of your time in the car schmoozing rich people who couldn't tell a fuel-injection system from a lugnut if their lives depended on it.

Other than that, though, y'know... great car.

Er, you forgot to mention that the dipstick to check the oil and transmission are batons and the lack of automatic transmission and power everything--hey, manual windows, door locks, steering--let's give 'em full control! Having said that, I like the concerto scene--it's the only time I don't have to be in the hot seat as opposed to recitals, which I love to perform dearly just the same.

Seems the roads are already full of these vehicles already--driving has nearly become a suicide mission if you are in certain necks of the woods these days. I think these drivers should own cars named 'Killer Kar'. Too many car-azy people behind the wheel.

Crescendo--the topic here--let's remember that volume in the 1700s and the 1800s may not have been so ear-blowing as they are now. Huge concert halls did not exist, so players didn't have to force--and this had to affect tempi. If anyone can find a recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in its first performances, we'd be shocked. I heard Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue from 1924--pure Klezmer, light and very authentic. What it is today is a popular symphonic work that only echoes of its heritage, but it still isn't the same thing, however great it is. For crescendo, just how loud is loud?

Sign in front of the Cleveland Institute of Music's expansion project: "Building to a Crescendo."

-sigh-

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Originally posted by timpani_1:
Sign in front of the Cleveland Institute of Music's expansion project: "Building to a Crescendo."

-sigh-

no way!

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Originally posted by DHP:

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Originally posted by timpani_1:
Sign in front of the Cleveland Institute of Music's expansion project: "Building to a Crescendo."

-sigh-

no way!

Yep...CIM just loves goofy slogans like that. Its favorite: "By any measure, exceptional."