Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later in the year the Freshmen may have an opportunity to hear Copey give one of his Bible selection readings, which he is at present compiling in a further anthology...
When novices hear their first Rosenkavalier they are impressed by the lilting waltz themes, the glittering pageantry of oldtime Vienna. But Strauss's comedy, an authentic product of genius, offers more than buffoonery. The role of the Marschallin, sung by Lotte Lehmann, is as subtle a character as any in opera. Here is a woman both beautiful and middleaged. She must be dignified and she must also love a young man ecstatically - while around her whirls the laughter of low comedy...
...opening bill there were two world premieres for which Ruth Page did all the choreography and danced the leading roles. For Hear Ye! Hear Ye!, a courtroom parody, she wrote her own scenario, had it approved by her lawyer-husband, Thomas Hart Fisher. Composer Aaron Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted...
...Heart," "There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway"), took his place at the keyboard. Lyricist Stella Unger vocalized the latest Fisher-Unger work, especially commissioned by the Herald Tribune. Soon that paper's linotypers, compositors and rewrite men on the outside were astounded to hear issuing from the conference room the massed voices of the advertising staff loudly and almost gayly singing the following song...
...white folk penetrate 200 miles into French Equatorial Africa to the settlement of Lambarene on the sluggish River Ogowe. Such strangers as do turn up there are mightily surprised to hear, among the night sounds of the jungle, an organ crashing out one of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccatas and Fugues. Albert Schweitzer is no more famed as a man of God than he is as a man of music. Author of a two-volume biography of Bach, he is the world's No. 1 interpreter of the great German's organ music, which he has edited in five volumes...