Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pianist Bauer wakened him to supervise the Bach relay. Thus began an exciting evening of which the climax was the introduction of the so-called Gooschepeix Foolyphone,* an ominous engine-like instrument with coils, levers and pipes. Painstakingly oiled by celebrities in overalls, the contraption exploded after a few dismal howlings and was hung with an "Out of Order" sign. Serious peaks were reached by Baritone Emilio de Gogorza who sang a Gluck aria and by Mrs. Edward MacDowell, pianist-widow of the late great composer, who played the Andante from her husband's Keltic Sonata...