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...dark corner of the Carnegie Hall stage. In their usual place a great gilt-framed triptych stood, spattered with stars and angels. Angels opened the triptych, disclosed three panels rudely painted to suggest a ship docked in the harbor of Alexandria, a temple doorway in Jerusalem, a grotto in a desert beyond the River Jordan. Over the half-hidden orchestra, Composer Respighi benignly presided while wanton Mary of Egypt, his latest creation, flaunted her trade on the water front, repented and finally crawled, a sainted harridan, into a grave dug by a lion in the middle of the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscanini's Friend | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...them. A judge fined them each $5 & costs. Speaking before a Knights of Pythias convention at Cincinnati, Senator James John Davis of Pennsylvania advised "everyone to join some organization in order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis is a Moose, Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine and the Grotto, Knight of Pythias, Odd Fellow, Elk, Eagle, Forester, and a member of "many other fraternal orders." He also belongs to Chevy Chase, National Press, Congressional Country and Burning Tree clubs in Washington, and to the Americus Republican, Dequesne and Atlantic clubs of Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Brien, Samuel Riker. Just beyond Tucker's Town are Bermuda's two literary shrines: Tom Moore's House, where the Irish author of Lalla Rookh, "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" lived for one year; and Prospero's Cave, a spectacular grotto that is traditionally the site of the magic banquet in The Tempest, actually where aquatic Cinemactress Annette Kellerman made Neptune's Daughter and used to give- shapely exhibitions of swimming and diving. Nassau. Bermuda is the name of an island. Nassau is a town. Nassau's island is called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Pops Concert tonight in Symphony Hall, Alfredo Casella will conduct the orchestra of 80 Symphony Players in the following program: March from "Aida" Verdi Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. Morning Mood b. Aase's Death c. Anitra's Dance King's Grotto d. In the Troll Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier "Pacific 2-3-4," Symphonicment Move Honegger "Italia," Rhapsody Casella Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Infermezzo, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Maseagnt Marche Slave Tchaikovsky

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASELLA LEADS ORCHESTRA IN POPS CONCERT TONIGHT | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Marche Militaire Schubert Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. Morning Mood b. Death of Aase c. Anitra's Dance d. In the Troll King's Grotto Boston Square and Compass Club Chorus a. O. Italia, Italia," from "Luerezia b. Rolling Down to Rio German c. Moonlight and Roses Lemare Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude to Act III. "Traviata" Verdi Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Overture to "William Tell" Rossini

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At the Pops Tonight | 6/5/1928 | See Source »

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