Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band of the roaring 20's grew rapidly through the days of white sailor caps and bow ties, but still lacked the bass drum, the Anderson medleys and the snap drills which gave it nation-wide fame and provoked high-school girls and college co-eds from as far as Texas to write touching letters to Bill Bingham pleading for a chance to be a Harvard drum majorette...
...Leroy Anderson '29, who gave the band its biggest single boost toward fame, joined the group as a Freshman and soon was composing tunes and medleys which were quickly added to the repertoire. After graduation, he stayed on as conductor and wrote his famous Ivy League medleys, now a distinct part of the Crimson's performances...
...Mozart's names, the same precocity, and a gift for melody. His ballet (The Snowman), composed when he was eleven, was produced in Vienna two years later. Before he was 20 he had written two operas. The Dead City, written at 23, won him fame throughout Europe, and a new star, Maria Jeritza, introduced it at Manhattan's Metropolitan...
Deep down he was "a very lonely man who paid dearly .for his fame," says Mrs. Colum. "His voice would be so charged with emotion, so full of ... yearning for a life he could never have . . . that one saw there were whole regions of his mind that could only be expressed in music. . . . He had no such large voice as John McCormack, who had won the competition they both had entered.* But for emotional expressiveness Joyce was the most effective singer I have ever heard...
...Aeschylus and Sophocles. As he aged, he became one of the county sights-a "tall, sad-faced elderly gentleman ... in an ill-fitting suit. . . blue spectacles on nose and an old cape. . . ." He lived to see his Rubaiyat become famous, but died (1883) a couple of decades before its fame became "a mania which swept the world" and posed a literary question that still engrosses Rubaiyat lovers : How much of Omar is Omar and how much is FitzGerald...