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To reach a crescendo ...

Author: diz
Date: 2004-05-31 22:15

I bought "Limelight Magazine" this morning. It's our national broadcaster's so called arts magazine ... it contains (almost) full programming for ABC Classic FM (my reason for purchasing it).

There is a wonderful editorial on the LSO ... but it begins:

"It was the first note in a symphony that would take many years to reach a crescendo ..."

Errkkk ... horrifying really. A crescendo, by definition, is a building. I found it surprising that Limelight's editor let this slip. This is the kind of phrase often used by sporting commentators (to my chargrin) "the crowd's roar built up to a crescendo" I don't blem the sporting fraternity, I'm sure they actually have no idea what the word actually means, hence are not able to see the double useage. But from an Arts magazine ... yech.

The article on the LSO was very intersting, by the way.

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