Word: critic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critic Charles Henry Meltzer was last week quoted in Musical America on the perenniel topic of opera in English. Said Critic Meltzer...
...Critic Meltzer thereupon presented specimens of operas which he has translated into English for the Edith Rockefeller McCormick edition of modern librettos, now being issued at the expense of the famed Chicago patroness of music...
...same: In opera, the play is not the thing. Modern singers, it is true, are trained to careful diction; but even to the best of singers, words are no more than so many sibilants, dental fricatives, head-tones and gargles. It is often difficult, even for a critic reasonably near the stage and with a command of several languages, to tell what tongue an opera singer is enraptured in, unless he cheats by looking at the program. Great poets are sensitive. To hear their lines thus trilled, gargled, causes them inconceivable anguish; they seldom write librettos. Yet U. S. audiences...
Since the announcement on Saturday of the death of Walter Camp, eminent sportsman and critic, tributes have been made from followers of sport throughout the country to the memory of the "Father of Football". Several members of the University who were connected with Mr. Camp, either through athletics or personal acquaintance, have expressed their appreciation of his character and the knowledge of the loss to the world of sport through his death...
There is however, much to be said in favor of the Pierian that has been over-looked by its apologist as well as by its critic. The Pierian certainly holds a very high place among college orchestras. What though its programmes be drawn from familiar restaurant repertory? This is not likely to be objectionable to any but a sophisticated taste and restaurant music is usually decidedly pleasing. The Orchestra furthermore has had to hew its own way, fighting along with no help from the Music Department and selecting its conductors from its own ranks. Its programmes, its aims...