Word: allegros
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...were 44,000; this year they may reach 60,000. And last week when 2,000 people gathered in Chicago for three conventions, the National Association of Music Merchants, the National Association of Sheet Music Dealers, the National Retail Musical Instrument Dealers Association, even the piano men began feeling allegro giocoso. President Edwin R. Weeks of the Music Merchants blithely buried the Jazz Age, declaring that "dreamy, tuneful melodies" are now the thing. President Robert A. Schmitt of the Sheet Music Dealers said: "People are singing again in family music groups. They have kicked out the 'Hotcha man.' They...
...house for 27 seasons. In Der Rosenkavalier she is a Viennese lady, handsome in bouffant black. In Lohengrin she is a bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain on a small bier. And in dozens of other operas "Maman" Maria Savage...
Following the concert the singers will adjourn to the Chapel where they will give a special rendition of "Jesus Duleis Memoria", by Vittoria; "Miserere," Allegro; and "To Thee Alone Be Glory" by Bach. This last number will be accompanied by the organ...
...program consists of the following selections: "The Heavens Are Telling (The Creation)" by Haydn; "Miserere" by Allegri; "The Nightingale" by Weekes; Two Choruses from "L' Allegro" by Handel; "O Gladsome Light" by Archibald T. Davison '06, former conductor of the Glee Club; "O Light Everlasting" (Cantata 34) by Bach; "Dirge for Two Veterans" by Holst; From the Realm of Souls Departed" by Gluck; "Brennan on the Moor" a Somerset folk song; "Hunt the Wren" an Isle of Man folk song; "The Arkansaw Traveller" an American frontier song" "Spanish Ladies" as English folk song; and "Coronation Scene" from "Boris Godounov...
...used for informal family affairs by aspiring musical amateurs. This sonata, written in the great creative year of Mozart is one of the more serious sonatas, though it is generally in a pleasant and jolly mood. There are, however, frequent lapses into solemn and, plaintive movement even in the Allegro and Presto. The conventional ornaments for the sake of virtuosity are scarce. Menuhin's own playing is restrained in the classic traditional but always virile. "His Master's Voice" has recorded the Mozart sonata. Another recent recording by "His Master's Voice" is the great "Passacaglia and Fugue...