Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next year. In 1934 she wrote the checks for Fritz Reiner's beautiful, expensive Tristan, his Rosenkavalier that critics called the best U. S. opera of the season. Last week operagoers from all over the East headed again for Philadelphia's Academy of Music to hear sung in English two one-act premieres* that had cost...
Afterward came the work that many had traveled expressly to hear. Mrs. Bok had praised it to the skies, called its author, 25-year-old Gian-Carlo Menotti, one of the two great talents developed by Curtis, arranged the whole evening to give her protege a hearing. Though Amelia Al Ballo (Amelia Goes to the Ball) hardly justified her claims, it was full of glowing, facetious music admirably suited to the story of a woman who betrayed her lover, assaulted her husband and flirted with a policeman so as not to miss the big ball of the season. Young Menotti...
Taking a fling at the conduct of some of the other athletes on the boat, Eleanor claimed she did most of her drinking up; in the first class "among my friends," then, after a slight pause. "I hear I missed some pretty gay parties lower down...
...organist at St. Mary's in Liibeck, Dietrich Buxtehude held one of the best music posts in Germany. Listeners came from all over to hear his Abendmusiken, fertilely imagined concerts given on the five Sunday evenings before Christmas. For these concerts St. Mary's published the first program books in history...
...Johann Sebastian Bach walked some 200 miles to hear the Abendmusiken...