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Very few of Fiske's pale paraphrases of barroom jokes, his irrelevant elaborations of smoking-room mythology, are as frankly dramatic as "Mr. Jones's Night Off." Most famed is the ballad of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon"-a wretchedly voluptuous fish who said to herself: "There must be more to this sex-life than just swimming over each other's eggs." She put a badge on her right shoulder saying "I will share," paid a visit to Fanny Bored, the world's oldest mermaid, finally had an uncomfortable liaison on a barnacle bed, with an octopus...
Debussy never finished Mrs. Hall's Rhapsodie. His last ambitious work was an order from Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio who wanted music for his Martyre de Saint-Sébastien to give to his mistress. Dancer Ida Rubinstein. Debussy's idolaters like to call Saint-Sébastien the great French Parsifal. Stage performances are never given to bear out their belief. The few concert performances have made it seem like the product of a tired, sterile mind. The War cast a final blight on Debussy's creative powers. One of his last feeble works...
...program for tomorrow is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Ecce Lam Noctis Chadwick Fireflies Russian Folk Song The Campbells Are Coming Scotch Folk Song If Here, Where All is Dark and Silent Gluck Secret Nook Brahms Choruses from "Princess Ida" Sullivan
...Yard will be free to the public and all members of the University. The program will be as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Salvation Belongeth To Our God Tschesnokoff Fireflies Russian Folk Song At Father's Door Russian Folk Song Secret Nook Brahms Les Anges French Carol Choruses from Princess Ida Sullivan College Songs...
...program will include the following selections: "The Steaming Rill" Arensky "Must I Forever?" Arensky (acc. "cello by Yves Chardon) "The Dirge for Two Veterans" Holst (acc. by brass) "Princess Ida" Gilbert and Sullivan "Salvation Belongs to Our God" Tschesnokoff "Let Celestial Concerts All Unite" Handel "Hymn to Manas" Holst(solo--Frederick Fuller 1G) "Cavalier Song" Stanford (solo--John Stacy Colman...