Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national home in Palestine). While leftist-minded Jewish composers tend to express themselves in the tuneless technicalities of modernism, or in the Negroid dialect of jazz, Zionist-minded Jewish composers seek a purely Jewish variety of concert music, color their symphonies and sonatas with the traditional chants of the ancient Hebrews...
Though the originality of his early compositions drew high praise from Critic Romain Holland (Jean-Christophe). it was not until he was 35 that Bloch got into his stride as a composer of distinctly Jewish music, began to color his music with scales and intervals derived from ancient synagogal hymns. In 1916 a tour as conductor of a dance troupe took him to the U. S., stranded him in Manhattan. Since then he has made the U. S. his home. He began to write his most important works in the early 1920s while serving as director of the Cleveland Institute...
...picking best in snow slid like water from a spaniel's back. Against one of the same sturdy shoulders a gun butt is often set, for John Bates can spare enough time from his Wall Street brokerage business (Taylor, Bates & Co.) to hunt woodcock, grouse, pheasant at the ancient Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club in Pike County, Pa., to shoot in South Carolina and the Florida fiats. He finds time also to be President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County Golf Club, N. J. and he knows dogs. One of only four dogs which...
...even in Wagner-worshipping Germany will these operas (Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger, the Ring cycle), be more reverently, painstakingly and expertly performed. But where the all-conquering Siegfried represents Der Fiihrer to every starry-eyed German backfisch, he will remain for U. S. operagoers a poetic figure of ancient and barbarous legend...
Richard Wagner, unwitting backdrop-designer for Nazi heroics, wrote words as well as music for all his operas, created a revolution in stagecraft. Musically he influenced nearly every composer of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Inspired by the notions of ancient Greek dramatists, Wagner visioned a super-art in which music, the drama, the dance and painting were combined. For his music-dramas he created a whole new musical language in which tunes and chords (Leitmotive or "leading motives") represent ideas and personages. Events, motives, characters, situations are all identified by characteristic musical phrases. Their appearance...