Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with arched spaces filled with mural decorations. The central theme is Christ coming to the Doom, or Last Judgment. Four of the spaces are occupied by subjects from the Apocalypse, while two show groups of persons gazing toward Christ the Judge. In the Apocalypse spaces there is a bottom band on which animals are painted in pairs facing a tree on a red background. Only three pairs remain: " Reynder and Ro; Wild Ass and Tarn Ass; Dromedary and Kameyl." Some of the Abbey pictures were painted in the time of Edward the Confessor (1050), some in that of Richard...
...crowded auditorium. The concert was described as exquisite. It is the purpose of the Society to demonstrate that the mandolin, far from being necessarily only a toy, is a serious, dignified and important instrument, one well fitted to satisfy the highest artistic demands of music. The Society has a band of one hundred expert players, who render in grandiose style arrangements of the compositions of the great composers. Listeners at the Berlin concert commented admiringly on the great, noble tone of the bass mandolins-almost organlike in richness-which moved in stately measures beneath the delicate, tintillating lacework...
Another prime social favorite in London just now is Paul Whiteman, the jazziest of them all. Whiteman and his jazz band are all the rage in London theatres, the greatest American theatrical success in England, it is said, since Edna...
Stransky traveled extensively during the Summer. He conducted orchestras in various parts of Spain. He directed a symphony concert at Palma in the Balearic Isles, where he found an orchestra of 27 men awaiting him. With this small band he played a program for which at the Philharmonic he would have had 80 musicians...
Born in a wagon among the musty properties of a band of strolling players on the outskirts of Venice, she grew to womanhood behind the flickering footlights of mean country stages. At the age of 24 she fell violently in love, lost her lover, then burst suddenly into world-wide fame. Taking Rome by storm in 1885, she toured Europe 1886-92, coming to America...