Word: adoree
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The few members of the New York Symphony who play now with the Philharmonic are said to be delighted over Walter's return. They adore their fiery Toscanini but Walter, they recall, was always considerate and gentle at rehearsals. Audiences too will note a great difference in the methods...
Parried Conservative Walker: "It has been reserved for the so-called Modernists to be irritated at any resemblance to anything that has calm, and to adore excess in every direction, to be shapeless, crude, eliminated in detail to nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and...
The Serenade. In 1897 a singing troupe called The Bostonians, headed by famed Soprano Alice Neilson, first presented this early operetta by the late Victor Herbert. The trifling story concerned the larks caused by the proximity of a monastery and a convent. In curious deference to modern religious scruples these...
The scene is laid in a Russian provincial village. Anna Petrovna, a General's widow, who is frightfully in debt to Jew moneylenders and ought to be saving every kopek, is giving a party, with all the fixings -Chinese lanterns in the garden, music, fireworks, plenty of drink. All...
"What do I think of Harvard men? I've known them all my life. And I adore Professor Copeland."