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George Fortescue rolled up his platypus robe, slipped it into a trunk, carried it on his travels until his death in 1914. It then went to his daughter Viola, who paid even less attention to it than he had. Recently, friends urged her to find out its worth. She took...
Subtitled Song of a New Race, Composer Still's newest work purports to "point musically to changes wrought in a people through the progressive and transmuting spirit of America." Its four movements are labeled "Yearning," "Sorrow," "Humor" and "Aspiration." Pleasantly sentimental in the moments when it was not jazzy...
Whatever its intrinsic value, this symphony is as important a milestone in Tchaikovsky's development as is Richard II in Shakespeare's evolution.
In Bucharest, Rumania, Mme Romano returned from a trip abroad to find that her pet monkey ("intrinsic value": $112), which she had left in care of Mme Sanatescu, refused to abandon its new home. When Mme Sanatescu insisted that the monkey's wish to remain with her be respected...
Most troublesome of all Coronations to the family of Norfolk was that of Edward VII in 1902. Reason: Queen Victoria had lived so long (82 years) that most Court officials who knew how all the little details of a Coronation have to be managed, had preceded Her Majesty to the...