Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gauthier is the sort of person who arouses curiosity and imagination. She is a little French Canadian, dark, eager eyed and sprightly. Her movements are rapid and unaffected. A glance at her reveals a singular flame of honesty and intelligence. She sings with a pretty voice and a simply astounding amount of understanding, artistry and grace. With the sort of music she sings, a mere correct intonation of the ear-confounding sounds is an astonishment. In the ensemble of impressions, this little woman wears a strangely exotic...
...support, apparently. Hinshaw is a splendid sort of person, a big, cordial fellow, who, raised on a farm, fell in love with music in his boyhood through the medium of a cornet, and who admits that, through all his years of distinguished success, he has never lost his early flame for the little keyed trumpet...
...creature of a Senatorial oligarchy," or call him the " synthetic automaton of a few reactionary political doctors who met secretly in a room in the Blackstone Hotel in 1920," public prejudice and the mob's love of sensational and derogatory slander is kindled into a livid and cynical flame...
...those present at the time will forget his first sight of her in Die Tote Stadt a year ago. The wizardly clever but banal music had woven a climax for a superb entrance. A door swung open, and on the upper landing of a low stairway a flame of orange appeared, a Juno-like figure radiant in smiles and a blond glamor. That was Jeritza...
...admirably played by M. Laurent,--seem to rob the piece of some degree of unity. Of the three choral hymns from the RigVeda, the "Hymn to Soma" is the most striking. "To Agni" is lively and the music surges and dies and surges again like a sea of flame. The climax of "To Agni" is extremely powerful. Mr. Gilbert's "Pirate Song" is pleasing, but did not fit very well in the programme. In the "Hunter's Farewell" the Glee Club outdid itself in beauty of phrasing and tone-color...