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Word: bellsing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The poetry of bell effects has always appealed to composers for the piano. In Borodin's Au Couvent, a bell tolls for 18 measures, silvery, gentle, relentless; Debussy composed an intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bells | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

The flags of London fluttered. The guns in Hyde Park boomed. At Windrsor cannon roared salute and bells rang out right merrily through the day. Visitors flocked to Marlborough House to sign the guest book. Couriers-that is postmen and telegram lads-rushed with greetings. At Sandringham, surrounded by her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Affairs: Eighty | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

Dick, so the story goes, was a poor lad who found his way to London and was taken into the service of the merchant Fitzwarren. To rid himself of the mice in his garret-bedroom, he bought a cat for a penny. As it was a custom for all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lord Mayor's Show | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

Memories of My Childhood is the name of Charles Martin Loeffler's new symphonic poem. He reminisces in music of a time when he did not know he would be a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, nor a famous composer. Opening with church bells, the poem sings of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Church Bells | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

People who sit in the glittering horseshoes shoes of great opera houses, in the orchestras of famed concert halls, have cold faces, bright clothes. To brilliance, to frigidity runs their taste. Let a soprano pour out her soul in a fine frenzy of enthusiasm, they lift their eyebrows, clap and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Galli-Curci | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

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