Word: lilt
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...method is to dissolve the mystery of grand opera, to destroy the traditions that it is only for the highly cultured: to exploit the human pull which lived in the hearts of great composers and which now lives in their compositions. Jazz we hear and forget. Its lilt wears for the moment and then fades. But even the most untutored in music can retain the memories which a great composer's idea inculcates into a musical drama...
...Glee Club then turned to the realm of folk-song and in the Scotch and Irish ballads they sang with a fire and lilt which delighted the audience. The Bach finale, despite the too liberal use of brasses and organ, was a veritable burst of glory...
...poems on Helen of Troy (to whose tragedy Mr. Benet adds a tender episode), there are choruses comparable for phrase and lilt and a certain lyrical iridescence to Swinburne's "Atalanta." Where Swinburne chimes fragile silver, Mr. Benet hammers out hard steel. He revels in the resonant and triumphant metres which go ringing at full gallop as of horses who "dance . . . to the music their own hoofs make...
...University fable that the girl of the Junior Dance is the Senior fiancee meets unusual circumstances tonight. Realizing that 1920 is leap year we are lost in conjecture, wondering how the delicate feminine intuition will avail itself of this opportunity to usurp the masculine prerogative. In the lilt of a Strauss waltz or the sensuous rythm of a fox trot the Harvard undergraduate loses that abstraction which is so noticeable in the lecture hall. He will be engulfed, a little by the soft eyes and wavy tresses of some maid, and Harvard indifference will give way to a flush...
Gaelic Songs.--(Miss Pratt): Hebridean Islands (arranged by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser): Kishmul's Galley, A Harris Love Lament, A Raasay Lilt, Milking Croon, Spinning Song, Tir-Nan-Og, A. Hebridean Sea-reiver's Song...