Word: exordium
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Unforgettable Exordium. The program opens with a roll of drums and a dashing fanfare of twelve trumpets that ends in a sad plop. The fanfare is followed by Composer Malcolm Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture, dedicated to "President Hoover" (says the program note: "The momentous opening-the beginning of an introduction that is to contain the foreshadowings of all the principal thematic material-is among the unforgettable exordiums of music, echoing, as it does, what might be called the elemental power of the ethos of sublimity . . ."). The Overture is scored for "a prodigious array of percussion, pitched...
...magnificent Hudson a magnificent church. To voice its presence to surrounding multitudes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has set in its tower 72 bells, world's largest and heaviest carillon. (The Park Avenue Baptist, predecessor of Riverside Church, had only 53.) Their invitation Dr. Fosdick expressed in a great exordium...
Master Sessions' exordium...
...Yale men, that the discipline of this institution tends toward the cultivation of manly and independent qualities; and we behold with pride, and make much of the fact, that Yale men are free from what we term the foppery and affectation of the Harvard undergraduate." With this exordium, which shows that habit will exercise its sway in spite of the best resolutions to the contrary, the Record, in the new spirit it has announced, forgetting all bygones, humbly states that "beneath the dandyish exterior of the Harvard man you will generally find the instincts and the breeding of a true...
...Groton's oration was ably written and well delivered. In his modest and graceful exordium he alluded to the long-courted obscurity of the society, now laid aside for the first time after eight years of successful existence. He then passed to his subject, "Genius," in the treatment of which he showed equal facility of expression and freshness of thought. Many of the touches in the latter part evidenced the presence of the subject of his oration...
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