Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answers to these questions the Vagabond will hear in Sever 11 at twelve o'clock today when John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higinson Professor of English Literature, lectures on the King James Version of the Bible...
...Milan last week a premiere for which Italy had waited almost a year came to pass. Nobles, diplomats, artists and high society packed into La Scala to hear singers retell the story of Lucretia's rape, the people's revolt and the eventual founding of the Roman Republic. Composer Ottorino Respighi had made his new opera dovetail scrupulously with Livy's 2,000-year-old account. As usual in his later work he had been sparing with orchestral effects, taken pains that voices should nearly everywhere prevail. Many pronounced Lucrezia the best opera Respighi ever wrote...
...concert, she caused the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy to exclaim of Strauss's Morgen: "So it happened again, the recurrent miracle of sublimated song that is Strauss at his highest inspiration-the song so few singers dare to tackle because it is all spirit. To hear it twice within three days is to meet the gods bearing gifts, .for not many times in a musical lifetime do you encounter such a song and such a singer...
...Cleveland to become the second conductor that city's orchestra ever had.* Rodzinski showed himself conscientious as well as brilliant. Besides building up the audience for his regular symphony series, Rodzinski added opera to his schedule and made his Wagnerian performances famous. People came from 40 cities to hear his Parsifal last April. Last summer he became the first permanent conductor of a U. S. orchestra to lead at the Salzburg festival. There he was received warmly, delighted even fastidious old Arturo Toscanini...
...music? I don't know what to say about it. I love it, I love to play it, and I love to hear it!" Such was Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong's eminently satisfactory comment on the Art of the Hour, Swing Music. The greatest trumpeter since that day at Jericho when "The people heard the sound of the trumpet and the wall fell down flat." (Joshua VI, 20). Louis Armstrong, whom Hugues Panassie, the author of "Le Jazz Hot", considers "not only a genius in his own art, but one of the most extraordinary creative geniuses that all music has over...