A salon-scale performance would have been swallowed up in reverberation.
Mahler, high priest of an all-embracing symphonic gigantism, wrote works seemingly ill suited to the salon-scale conversion involved in a performance of his Symphony No. 4 by the Chelsea Symphony at Bargemusic on Saturday night.
A higher scale salon requires bigger space for each "slot", while a bigger "slot" should be charged with a higher premium to compensate the cost of space.
In contrast to his Beaux-Arts murals and large-scale Salon canvases, his intimate paintings show the influence of Impressionism, with its loose brushwork, lack of finish, and interplay of light and shadow.
The show at Lewellyn Alexander hardly rivals the original Salon des Refusés in scale, official recognition or significance.
Some salons use a graduated commission scale to encourage stylists to lure more customers.
The 39-year-old set designer from New York creates architecturally dramatic sets for theater, opera and dance, such as her full-scale Tsarist Russian salon in "Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812".
It was the same dance we had performed around the central salon, now brought to its most intimate scale.
At the third aviation salon in Paris 1911, Coandă displayed a scale model of the aircraft which used two Gnome rotary engines mounted back to back, connected by a bevel gear to one propeller.
But as stinging as the criticism was, the episode also brought Salon traffic and name recognition on an unprecedented scale.
He withdrew from exhibiting in the Salon in the 1830s after a celebrated small-scale project was rejected as goldsmithery (i.e., not "high art"), but he returned in 1850, to great acclaim.
