Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole Wagnerian opera, pounding out brass chords, yodeling out-of-tune soprano arias and throaty German tenor recitatives. From Wagnerian opera he would turn to Italian opera, lieder singing, Gilbert & Sullivan, the bedlam inside a music conservatory. Last week Pianist Templeton brought his improvisations and caricatures to Carnegie Hall, where they formed the dessert of a program of more conventional piano music. Crotchety highbrow critics hemmed & hawed about his straight playing, but they had to admit that his mimicry was extraordinary...
...named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
Undoubtedly a major work of Spanish Romanesque art is the fresco of a fantastic monster, recently acquired and installed in Warburg Hall at the Fogg Museum. Mounted attractively on the room's south wall, it is likely to win the most casual observer with its vigorous representation and rich color, its size and dignity. The fresco represents a species of griffin, showing the head and wings of an eagle, the neck of a serpent, and the tail of a cock. Though his body is much blurred, ferocity still lives in his eye, tension in his talons, strength in his large...
Dating from the first half of the thirteenth century, this grotesque griffin originally formed part of a row of ghastly figures that decorated the walls of the Sals Capitula, or chapter house, in the ancient monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza near Burgos in north-central Spain. The hall was about thirty-four feet square by twelve feet high and the beasts nearly covered its walls. Around 1773 the hall was remodelled to permit the erection of a large staircase, and its weird, barbarous decorations were covered with plaster. In the nineteenth century, when the building had passed into private...
Swing music has been given official recognition with the addition of popular recordings to the Theatre Collection in Widener Library under the direction of Mrs. Lillian A. Hall, Custodian of the Theatre Collection...