Word: chords
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...verse is in the main respectable. Haven Hubbard's "Since you have Waned from Us" touches the chord of sentimental melancholy gently and sweetly. Mr. Riche's "To One Who Goes into the Night" has simple tenderness and sincerity. Phillip Hitchborn's "Foam-White", equally neat in its versification, falls however, to escape artificiality, and James Thomas Flexner's "Resurrection" does not reach the maturity of though and emotion which the subject demands...
...greater crowd than ever before crammed its way into this pillared space, now swept of every vestige of merchandise. They had come to hear a concert, attend a reception given by Rodman Wanamaker in honor of Thaddeus Rich, concert master of the Philadelphia Orchestra. From the first grand chord of the organ prelude to the last lingering vibration of Soloist Rich's violin the audience were silent, as 15,000 disembodied spirits straining for the trumpet call of the angels. They heard the famed Wanamaker instruments, Stradivari, Guarnarius, Quadagnini, Montaguana, Gofriller . . . played in massed unison by the great string...
...into singing and dancing units; from this division came the use of the chorus as in Greek drama of a later period, and finally the song-and-dance motive was entirely gone from Greek poetry in its decadent stage. The chorus sang of the things which touch the deepest chord in the human soul,--dove, strife, death, and immortality. The natural expression of such thoughts was song and motion...
...have struck a popular chord, but your price is outrageous. Put it at $2 and you would soon have millions of subscribers and would leave no room for imitators at a lower price...
Finally the piece will attract wise playgoers if but to hear Gershwin's rhythmic "Lost Barber Shop Chord" melodiously sung by a negro quartet...