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...Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion boats in New York Harbor. He took one little girl by the hand and let her tweak his moppish mustachios. The band was playing "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott." A woman, the last of the 1,400 passengers, waving her hand kerchief to someone on shore as if she had been going on a long journey, ran up the gangplank. There was a jangle of bells, a fountain of spray as the paddle wheels rolled the water...
...splashed merrily in the evening coolness. Somewhere an orchestra was playing softly. But all this was of minor interest to the wanderers; their interest was focused upon a white aproned individual who bore a number of tall round receptacles clinking upon a tray. He approached-and placed before each ein grosses helles'. The vision vanished, Alas, this is Boston...
...purpose in mentioning a lecture on Richard Strauss, by the fact that that composer was perhaps the first, frankly to use cacaphony in the modern sense. Not that he was unable, as many modern composers seem to be to write most beautiful melodies, yet certainly in such works as "Ein Heldenleben", he points the way to the modern "realistic" tendency. Professor Hill will give the lecture at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...
...York Symphony, lifted no baton that night. Dramatic, he sat at the piano; his long fingers played accompaniments to four songs of his own composition, while his wife, Johanna Klemperer, sang. Her voice, except when she lifted it above F sharp, was rich, colorful, expressive. The song "Es war ein Koenig in Thule" was the most original...
Then, in innumerable languages, choir, prelates, congregation sang Martin Luther's militant hymn "Ein Feste Burg" ("A Mighty Fortress...