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...harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dublin's Dumb Wife | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...Dublin's shy, serious Composer Gerard Victory, 31, Ireland's harp has been silent too long. Ireland has a single professional symphony, a host of amateur choral societies which stick pretty closely to Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Creation, two opera societies which import stars for about seven weeks a year of old-fashioned grand opera, a green countryside full of amateur balladeers, and that is about all. Composer Victory decided to do something about it, last week unveiled in Dublin the world's first opera in Gaelic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dublin's Dumb Wife | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...only way to learn to play the harp is to play the harp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Playwright Truman (The Grass Harp) Capote gave a reporter in Rome a hint about his next play, to be partly in verse. It will be located in the West Indies, he said, with an almost all colored cast, and is "about life in a house of ill fame or brothel or whatever you call these houses with women inmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 12, 1953 | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Grows like a harp; a rich embroidery

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Florentine | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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