Word: harping
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...musician touched the strings of the golden harp which was decorated with lapis lazuli shells. A dozen young ladies of the harem lay on their backs in two parallel rows; they were dressed alike, with fascinating headbands, large earrings of gold, veils held in place by slender copper pins. Guardsmen stood at attention. In the offing was the great king's chariot, drawn by two asses. Grooms held the reins; another flunky was in attendance. Gaming boards with dice, copper bowls, tumblers, and other diversions awaited His Majesty. But he was nowhere to be seen. It did not matter...
These and other matters concerning the life and times of the King of Ur were announced last week by C. Leonard Woolley, director of the joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum. The finding of the gold head of the harp led the diggers to the grave...
...audience forget altogether the guitar of the barbershop ballads. Sor, Malats, Tarrega, Torroba, Grandaos, Albeniz and even a suite of the great Johann Sebastian Bach were played, with an amazing virtuosity and an infinite variety of tonal color. Some moments the music was bright, crackling like a harp's chord, then full, glowing like an E 'cello. Always it was more than a guitar, the mouthpiece of a rich imagination, intelligently directed...
...Bolshevist fishmonger and a Bolshevist ditchdigger, both of them murderers, both of them anarchists ! Imagine gentle Henry James, that master of manners and nicety, bawling out disorderly epithets at policemen, judges and governors! I say it is a sin against a fine tradition for newspapers and for TIME to harp on the fact that this rowdy roisterer, this half-baked "intellectual," this "radical nephew," Edward James, is related to his uncles. To decent Boston he seems more like a descendant of that other villain, Jesse James, the bandit...
...following program will be rendered tonight at the Pops Concert at Symphony Hall: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Largo Handel (Solo violin, harp, organ, and strings) Overture to "Leonore No. 3" Beethoven "The Preludes," Symphonic Poem Liszt "Omphale's Spinning Wheel" Saint-Saens "La Valse," Choregraphic Poem Ravel "A Victory Ball" Fantasy Schelling Song without Words Tchaikovsky Marche Slavo Tchaikovsky