Word: bonheur
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Toward the end the piece settles into a quiet and completely anomalous mass of discordant voices which gradually work up the scale and resolve into peaceful harmonious chords on the final words of the psalm, "bonheur...
...organization to be encouraged. The young body of dancers, labouring under a severe economic handicap that forbade the assistance of an orchestra, presented a program of mixed value, with admirable determination. Although the musical worth and choreography of their first three offerings, "Danse", "Le Maitre A Danser", and "Le Bonheur, Feerie", may be strongly questioned, the company more than redeemed itself with the continued brilliance of its costumes and the excellence of "Hollywood...
...about 12 did he get nerve enough to climb the stairs past the dusty plaster casts of the ground floor to the paintings on the floor above. The Metropolitan was a far different place then from the great treasure house that it has since become, but it had Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, Meissoniers Friedland, and Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Little Leon Kroll swore that he would become a painter, did so well that today the Metropolitan owns two Kroll paintings, one pencil drawing...
...show possible. In 1927 Fair President Rufus Cutler Dawes appointed Chauncey McCormick chairman of the committee on art exhibits. The Fair's general manager, Maj. Lenox Riley Lohr, wanted to know what Chicagoans wanted to see. A questionnaire showed they wanted to see September Morn and Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair. Mr. McCormick, remembering the art shambles at Chicago's 1893 Fair where every exhibitor was given space to hang what he liked, countered with the names of Rembrandt, Gauguin, da Vinci...
McCormick: Did you know that Rosa Bonheur was dead? Do you know who painted September Morn...