Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surging First and the grandiose Ninth Symphonies. He needed no score to make soloists of the thousand musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Beethoven was in his eyes, his fingertips, his baton. . . . The concert ended. There was a mighty ovation. The audience went home with its marrow tingling; critics groped for words. Toscanini, looking tired and coughing, prepared to sail for Milan. For a year, he says, he will retire. Said able Critic Samuel Chotzinoff of the New York World: "Where Toscanini goes is undoubtedly the centre of the musical world." If Toscanini retires, where then is the centre...
...publishing they went calling. They called on President William Allan Neilson of Smith College and on Colyumnist Heywood Broun of the New York World; on Advertiser Bruce Barton and President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, Sport-Writer W. O. McGeehan and Actress Genevieve Tobin, Dr. Frank Crane and Critic Baird Leonard of Life. At these, in the pairs named, and at other notables, they directed a rushing stream of questions: "What style of writing did the early Babylonians use?" "What is coral? . . . a centaur? . . . a Bunsen burner? . . . the longest bridge in the world?" "How do kangaroos carry their offspring...
...Herder as Critic", Professor Howard, Germanic Museum, German...
What seems to the Vagabond the unfortunate aspect of this movement, is that its spirit is being applied to life in general. Of a recent work of modern music a well-known critic has written. "It is a work of discord and cacophonies; as ugly and as true as life itself." Let us all smile together...
...Thomas McElrath, his partner, was business manager. Among those who worked on Greeley's Tribune at one time or another: Charles A. Dana (famed for the Sun), Whitelaw Reid (father of Ogden Reid, present Herald Tribune owner), John Hay (Lincoln's secretary and Ambassador to England), William Winter (famed critic...