Word: flageolets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angmering-on-Sea, and my host, Mr. Kenneth Barnes, called me to listen to the wind playing, and took me to the bathroom, which faced down wind. The wind was blowing hard and gustily, and was producing a most amazing effect-exactly as though a flageolet were being played by a human performer. . . ." Through London's clubs last month droned the account of Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget's "most extrawd'nry" experience in that bathroom and his clever solution of the mystery, which he promptly reported to Nature. Few men in England could have resolved...
...comes a noteworthy book with omissions and distortions of the original carefully corrected.- The facts of Berlioz' early life go far toward making his accomplishments remarkable. His father was a smalltown doctor in the hilly South of France. Son Hector was allowed to toy with the flute, the flageolet, the guitar, but medicine was to be his profession. He had no sound musical grounding. Not until he was sent to Paris, set to dissecting corpses did he rebel and on his own account go after the rudiments of music which most musicians learn as children. For years Berlioz scraped...