Word: arias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aria and buskin yielded to the sock and tassel. In 1854 some one rented the stage for an exhibition of live Indians. Pentland's Circus and then a group of Chinese jugglers followed. During this transition period touring features such as Zavitowski's Juvenile Ballet still played the Athenaeum. By 1868, though, only cheap variety shows appeared; and the name of "Old Howard," already in common use, was officially adopted...
...music itself: The program opens with organ music by Bach, the Prelude and St. Anne Fugue in E-flat, (so-called because of its similarity to a well-known hymn-tune of the same name), and two chorale preludes. The Grandjany Aria for organ, harp and orchestra, and the Fantasic for harp and organ unaccompanied, are dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge, the sponsor of the concert, and while not dazzlingly modern, are typically French in their balance and delicacy of line. The Handel Harp Concerto is number six of Handel's organ concertos. It was written specifically for harp or organ...
...Aria, elected president of the Republic of Panama this week, is a graduate of the Medical School. Youngest chief executive in this hemisphere, he has selected as his cabinet a group of equally young advisers...
...Maeterlinck's understatements, Debussy gave a sheeny, translucent orchestral background, a tonal tapestry winding on & on with never a big aria or ensemble piece for the singers. The love avowal of Pelleas & Mélisande ("I love you." "I love you, too.") is sung to a magnificent orchestral silence. The opera therefore demands and gets reverent handling from singers who can look and act poetic on the stage. The first Mélisande, in 1902, was Mary Garden, who was given the role by the director of the Paris Opera Comique, although Debussy had agreed that Maeterlinck...
...James retired into the wings to put the finishing touches on the aria which he sang to the United Press last night. "We are a very small group of people who are not anti-Catholic," James protests, adding that he opposes only "political priestcraft". Hitler and Coughlin have used the same trick: "We don't hate all Jews, only scheming, Communist Jews." Again, James admits, "We do wear red shirts as a picturesque touch." Picturesque fellow Hitler...