Word: idylled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dates and themes of the single lectures are: March 17, the antique origin and the literary aspect of the idyl, the pastoral and the elegy, and mediaeval relics; March 24, the idyl and elegy in early European music before 1600, and Christmas pastorals; March 31, madrigals, opera, cantata and instrumental music of the 16th and 17th centuries; April 14, Bach, Handel, Ramcau, Gluek, Haydn, Mozart; April 21, the romantic and impressionistic aspects of landscape painting in music...
...leader swaying gently from side to side, his left hand raised for every pianissimo, quivering over his heart when he wanted special feeling. From Wagner there was the Meister singer overture, given such verve that the audience shouted its enthusiasm. In sequence came the gentle Siegfried Idyl, the prelude and finale from Tristan und Isolde, a performance of The Ride of the Valkyries with shadings so subtle, with force so dynamic that it really seemed like a preternatural flight through the skies...
Disclosure by the Senate of their August idyl quickly brought "the boys" into the spotlight. That night the six Congressmen notified Senator Black: "We divided and paid the expenses in the same manner any group of men maintaining 'bachelor quarters' would do. Any inference that we were guests of Mr. Smith or anyone else is entirely contrary to the facts. . . . Mr. Smith represented to the group that he was interested in conservation and irrigation in the West...
...English one, and the rest of the cast is unfamiliar to American audiences. It gives Miss Bergner most competent and sympathetic support, of which, however, she needs very little. The program is shared with "The Seeing Eye," showing how German shepherd dogs are trained to lead the blind; "Mexican Idyl," a Musical Mood in technicolor, and Fox Movietone News. And then, at 12.45 every day this week, there is to be heard the Shostakovitch Symphony No.1, recorded by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski...
...without ending his sense of responsibility toward his children. He worries over business, sees a strike in the factory, feels himself going to pieces when he finds Leda again. Learning that she loves him, he finds happiness for the first time in his introspective life. During their Manhattan idyl, Hendrick's wife sets detectives after them as Leda is recovering from an abortion. They flee to Europe, are appalled to discover that Hendrick's 10-year-old daughter, Margot, is traveling on the same boat, superintended by a mean friend of his wife...