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Albers believes that certain fundamental designs, or combinations of geometric figures, are pleasing to the eye just as a musical chord is to the ear, and that a discord in design is as definite as one in music...
...sale for the Wagner matinee cycle. By night every last one had been sold. Forthwith Manager Edward Johnson, by announcing that The Nibelungen Ring would be repeated in an evening series, precipitated another frantic rush for seats. This week the orchestra will sound out the rolling E flat chord which introduces Das Rheingold. The dwarfed, matty-haired Alberich will snatch the gold from the river's depths only to be tricked by the gods. Thus the way will be paved for the colossal musical saga which tracks through a dozen byways, involves a dozen innocents, reaches a peaceful ending...
...affection of Tina, who does not know that she is Charlotte's child. Lenient, generous, always spoiling the girl, Delia wins her love, while Charlotte's loving but demanding care turns the child against her. The conclusion is carefully worked out and the play ends on a strong chord of gentle but profoundly stirring tragedy...
Mister Jefferson Lord, Play that 'barber shop chord, That soothing harmony; It makes an awful, awful hit with me. Play that strain, just to please me, again. 'Cause, mister, when yon start that 'minor part I feel your finger slipping and gripping at my heart. Oh, Lord, play that barber shop chord...
...amateur singing in close harmony come to be associated with barber shops? Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, author of Barber Shop Ballads, points out that in "ancient" days barber shops were provided with lutes or citterns with which waiting patrons could occupy themselves. Also he suggests that "perhaps a barber shop chord is, after all, merely one which mutilates or dresses up some conventional formula of music." Negro Scholar James Weldon Johnson recalls that all barbers in the South used to be black, that every shop had a quartet whose members passed their time experimenting with novel harmonies, sometimes to the accompaniment...