Word: ge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, gerohrgedeckt, Oh, Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, ge-doo. The leonine head and thick-lensed spectacles of Archer Gibson, private organist for Charles Michael Schwab, bobbed over the keys of a small portable organ. The broad back of Author-Aeronaut Samuel Taylor Moore (Hetty Green) rose and fell over the pump-handle projecting from the organ's side. Some 80 tycoons, lesser businessmen, artists and writers boomed out their official anthem (chorus given above*) to the rhythmic accompaniment of pounded beer mugs in a big private dining room of the Hotel Brevoort, Manhattan...
When Eugène Ysaÿe was a six-year-old boy in Liége his father once let him sit among the orchestra players at an opera he was conducting. Most children would have been fascinated by the action on the stage but the Belgian conductor's child behaved that day in a manner which determined his career. He ignored the stage, watched the violinists with open-mouthed wonder...
...century and more the great Ysaÿe had no time for the stage. He was busy being a master violinist, busy at symphonic conducting, busy at composing for violin or orchestra. But last week he would have given a great deal to have gone back to Liége for the premiére of a one-act opera called Peter the Miner. He had written it himself but he was too sick to travel from Brussels to see it played. Seventy-two, diabetic, one leg amputated, he had to listen to his opera over the radio...
Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq D'Or: Introduction and Bridal Cortège conducted by Albert Coates, played by the London Symphony Orchestra (Victor, $1.50). Russia and the Orient combine to make this Record-of-the-Month a notable...