Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Haydn's Works," Professor Hill, Music Building, Music...
Franz Baydn, the first great master of the quartets and the symphony, will be discussed by Professor Hill in the Music Building at 12 o'clock. Hayda, who was beloved by the Viennese for his dainty and melodious operas, new as known as the last of the 18th Century realists, a composer of severe decorum and sriet technique. His place in musical history by the excellence of his instrumental compositions into which he introduced the freshness and lyric quality of his native Croation folk-tunes. Baydn's natural idiom, for that matter, was a heightened and ennobled folk song...
...work was influenced by Titian and Tintoretto. It is said that he lived in a little room in the palace of the Cardinal Farnese. He went to Spain when the Duke of Toledo asked Italian painters to work on his cathedral, and in Toledo, stony and enchanted on its hill above a desert where goats wandered with magicians, he painted until the end of his life...
...young Quincy sits the illustrious Congressional orator, John Randolph of Roanoke, pouting and shouting with grim intensity. If Sir Henry conquers, John Randolph will go to Europe on his winnings: Eclipse wins. John Randolph and the South are gallantly chagrined. Lafayette, with his Revolution limp, visits Boston and Bunker Hill, erect and vigorous at 70, with a most serviceable brown wig. As Governor Lincoln's aide, young Quincy rides beside the hero through an ovation "by bells, cannon and human lungs" from a transported citizenry which "was then homogeneous and American." In 20 tents on Boston Common...
...painted traveler, asleep under the moon with her mandolin should be a "Bohemian" is hard to say. Her mandolin is quiet. All around her, upon the desert and upon her limbs, disposed in sleep, the moon bends its light, and a lion (come down from a hill colder and stonier than the desert) stands with a black shadow on its face, solitary, looking at the traveler with wild, tender eyes...