Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cavalleria, dies in most horrible agony in Carmen and Fedora, has a dozen devices for making opera exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget the beauty of her as Sieglinde sitting still at the table listening half-hypnotized to Siegmund's narrative; the silver radiance of her as Ocatavian bringing in the rose; the iridescent tenderness of her Elsa; the white compassion of her Elizabeth. Critics carp at vocal imperfections, occasional explosive performances, but in the final reckoning they pale like small talk before the fact...
Ariadne, never among the most successful of Strauss operas, has had frequent amendments. In its present form there is a prologue and one act, which makes a play within the play. Ariadne, tragically abandoned by Theseus, must listen to the cajolery of Zerbinetta, the comedienne; listens to learn and herself turns finally to Bacchus. All this Strauss has set to droll, delightful music which demands more of his singers' virtuosity than of his own originality. Philadelphia singers lacked the necessary virtuosity last week but Alexander Smallens almost atoned with his 37-piece orchestra...
...tentative plan the Committee will, through the Deans and Heads of Schools, announce such lectures as may be of interest to the student, also announcing its place, time, and extra capacity of the room. Any student wishing to listen to the lecture is privileged to do so without any difficulty whatsoever. --The Purdue Daily Exponent...
Walter Damrosch, now 66, continues to make music history. Again pioneer, he begins this week a series of radio concerts for school children. In preparation some 100,000 classrooms have had radios installed and on Friday morning children all over the U. S. will listen for the first time to a new National Symphony Orchestra of 60 players (many of them members of the old New York Symphony) and hear Damrosch lecture on the great composers, their music and the instruments that make...
...baby against a full-grown statistic? . . . Well, here you are, and congratulations. . . . It's easier to learn while you're young, and you might as well start out with a few good habits and let the bad ones take care of themselves. Now stop that noise and listen...