Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in Manhattan, the Little Opera of America, Inc., presented an Opera Comique, Mandragola. Those who attended were familiar with the Little Opera's contention that the U. S. public will pay to see productions which have the music of grand opera without the latter's grandeur, the charm of musical comedy without its undue levity...
There is however, much to be said in favor of the Pierian that has been over-looked by its apologist as well as by its critic. The Pierian certainly holds a very high place among college orchestras. What though its programmes be drawn from familiar restaurant repertory? This is not likely to be objectionable to any but a sophisticated taste and restaurant music is usually decidedly pleasing. The Orchestra furthermore has had to hew its own way, fighting along with no help from the Music Department and selecting its conductors from its own ranks. Its programmes, its aims...
...time-worn but in this case extremely appropriate fable of the fox and the grapes. I feel called upon to ask why he should have interested his famous Tangos to be played by a "Village Band," why he should indulge in a play of terms like "sheet-music trade, "familiar restaurant repotory," and "a tender and devoted skill," and why as a candidate for position of Conductor of the Pierian Orchestra last fall, he should now cry for another Davison...
...except to a minor extent in the bond market. It was generally taken to indicate the end of the period of very easy money which has prevailed in Manhattan since last summer; and also the long way that financial and industrial recovery has traveled since that time. Evidently the familiar "business cycle" has not become nonoperative through the plethora of funds. Evidence accumulates that large amounts of credit will be taken up by agricultural efforts this spring to plant large crops at high prevailing prices, and by considerable commercial expansion. Also, the outward flow of U. S. gold continues...
...this familiar outline, Miss Lowell has brought new opinions, new material. She has studied old stage coach timetables, conjectured whether Keats stowed his portmanteau in the boot or had it sent by wagon; traced the influence upon his poetry of the Elgin Marbles, of an ash tree full of berries he saw somewhere, of a black eye he suffered in a game of cricket; computed how much claret he drank, examined a lock of his hair ("Such red, I think, I never saw before"), related how he received a kiss from a lady at a place called Bo Peep...