Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mozart's Haffner Symphony was first - Haffner because it was written to oblige a wealthy burgomaster, so named, of Salzburg. Mozart wrote it in less than a fortnight, when he was 26. Toscanini himself lost 35 of his 61 years when he led it, gave it exceeding grace and innocence. Second was a manuscript performance of Respighi's Roman Festivals, music that would be perilously close to claptrap if done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part...
...Recently a German Grand Opera Company arrived in Manhattan and advertised that it would give Wagner's Ring operas uncut, "according to the traditions of Bayreuth." Manhattan's critics were unanimously offended by the inferiority of the productions (TIME, Jan. 28) and the company left town. Last fortnight the same company gave performances in Chicago. After the Rheingold, the first in Chicago for more than a decade, Chicago seemed unanimously pleased. Critic Maurice Rosenfeld of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "The company began its two weeks' season . . . with great artistic success, with fine stage settings and management...
...divorces were granted, last fortnight, in Minot. One automobile containing four persons immediately set out for Melita, Canada, where two marriages were performed. Having re-arranged themselves, the Knights and the Rikansruds tabulated and shared expenses...
...gold racquets bat bandied back and forth between the Messrs. Mortimer and Pell since 1914 and won last fortnight by Mr. Pell at Tuxedo does not, as reported by TIME last week, symbolize the amateur championship but is comparable to the gold mashie played for annually on the private golf links of the late T. Suffern Tailer at Newport...
...Chicago Tribune, loud and bold though it is, never sent any such telegram. Neither did loud, bold Publisher William Randolph Hearst, though he was last fortnight reported as the successful bidder for Coolidge manuscripts after March 4, for the Cosmopolitan...