Word: austral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bach's Passion According to St. John. The chorals were excellently sung in a score which has never been popular in the U. S. On the third day, Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, conducted his own Symphonic Variations-a sound, scholarly piece of uninspired craftsmanship. Florence Austral, Australian soprano who has sung Wagnerian rôles in London, resoundingly delivered Brahms' Requiem. On the fourth day, Pierné's St. Francis of Assis furnished Tenor Edward Johnson an opportunity to demonstrate that an intelligent singer can make even inherently poor music impressive. The school children...
...without any effort on his won part. In December 1919 he was brought face to face with the question, whether it was right for one group of Americans to be able to force another group to freeze or starve, and this was settled by the formation of and austral court which Governor Allen explained...