Word: avesta
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...many levels of human interaction through simple song and melody. Nightclub Cantata is part of her search for "new words for music," words, she says, "that will not make either bad poetry or easy emotions." Playing with a vast range of 'foreign' languages, she has set to music "Avesta," an old Persian cursing language, as well as jungle choruses and a bird lament...
...strange, when one considers the things which have emanated from that brilliant melting-pot of inconsistencies. "Major Barbara," now playing at the Plymouth Theatre, does not change matters at all, for it is about as capable of being fully appreciated by an American audience as the Zend Avesta by a white-tied Methodist. Not that "Major Barbara" is not enjoyable, adverse criticism would reflect nowhere but on the unsatisfied but it is all so mysterious and sphinx-like...
Professor Lanman, of Harvard, read some interesting communications from members and friends of the society. Dr. Jackson, of Columbia College, now studying in Halle, announced the steady progress made by Professor Geldner in his great edition of Avesta...
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