Word: cymbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, came to the U. S. when he was nine. His father, also a conductor, was a friend of Liszt, Wagner, von Billow, Auer, Rubinstein; he led an orchestra in which Walter made his first public appearance-as a cymbal player. The youth was so nervous that he could not lift the cymbals. Later he played in his father's orchestra with the second violins to learn how instrument players follow the conductor's beat. Recently he owned the largest private music library in the world, presented it to the New York...
Nightly in the old Bowery Theatre, Manhattan, one may hear the eerie shiver of the Oriental cymbal, the monotonous turn-turn of the bass drum, the ultra-bitter sneer of the violin's E-string. This continues from 7 to 12 p. m., without interruption. It is Chinese music, the real article, just imported fresh from Canton. Every few days a new opera is presented, in Chinese, by Chinamen and Chinawomen artists and singers, for a Chinese audience and entirely in the Chinese manner. The following opera may be taken as typical...
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal now reads: " If I can speak the language of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal...
...place of what we more technically know as education of course not. The writer's chief stock in trade must be his facility in ideas. Imagination helps; correctness of expression helps; but without fertility in ideas imagination is no more than a sounding brass or expression than a tinkling cymbal. Ideas come by thinking; thinking comes by the training of the mind; and the training of the mind is the university's specialty. True, there are men of great readiness in ideas who have never had the benefit of this specialty; but I am inclined to think that...