Word: hearers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...turns sing-songy and jirkily prosy, but Mr. Irving is the most intellectual of players, and has illuminated the character of Hamlet with many subtle interpretations. As for M. Mounet-Tully, Hamlet is so strange to our ears on any tongue not English that the mind of his hearer is divided between natural bewilderment, and admiration for the varied beauty of this actor's delivery of his own language...
...amusing dismissal. The author has taken advantage of the fact that little touches of nature are what please the reader who reads for entertainment. In the same way the third of "Three Sketches," and "In the One Room," both telling stories of real life which can appeal to the hearer, are interesting and pleasing. The author of this last is John Mack, Jr. The first gives no name...
...songs which came later were, as we have said, very well rendered. The Serenade for Strings by Volkmann is a distinctively modern composition but none the less beautiful for this. There is no one theme running the whole thing but a complex series of beautiful suggestions, which lead the hearer into the realms of imagination and leave him wondering where...
...carried again and again into the minutest details and repeated by all the parts of the orchestra. The fabric is composed of the most intricate interweaving of part into part, yet all so skillfully that the effect of a perfect whole, a complete idea, is left with the hearer...
...convey the impressions of the composer on a visit to Cologne and its second performance took place there in 1851. There are five movements, the first and last being "vivace." The three middle ones are solemn and quiet and the whole leaves a very pleasant impression with the hearer...