Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cincinnati singers were trained by Alfred Hartzell. The performance of Elijah was conducted by Vanderstucken. An audience of nearly 4,000 people, from all over Ohio and even from remote parts of the United States, gathered to listen...
...plays are given in Russian, and their remarkable popularity with unlinguistic Americans seems somewhat strange at first glance. It is true that they attract a certain number who would listen to Chinese or Polyglot simply because it was the thing to do. But such sincere art as this could never degenerate into a mere fad. Audiences who are seeking the artistic, do not find it spoiled merely because some of the subtleties are lost in a foreign tongue. One catches the inspiration of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, even though it has no head, no feet, and only...
...that even in a curriculum now overcrowded with essentials courses like Music 3 and 4 are of the first importance, because music is coming to play such a large part in our lives, whether we will or no, that every man owes it to himself to learn how to listen to music intelligently. That a large part of the American public contents itself with hearing rather than listening to music is evidenced by the melancholy state of American musical taste. Obviously the place to begin the training of a discriminating sense is in the kindergarten, and this training should continue...
Nora Bayes: " I sailed for England on the Mauretania with my three adopted children. As we approached the gangplank a bride and groom were going aboard, and the band struck up Lohengrin's most popular piece. ' Listen to that wedding march,' I exclaimed. ' It's my national anthem...
...satisfaction out of a mild taxicab flirtation in Anything Might Happen, with no anticipatory tremors at sound of the clicking meter. You can share the Parisian amours of the charming wife and somewhat less charming husband in The Love Habit with no fear for your ultimate respectability. You can listen to the sweet mutual nothings of Romeo and Juliet, and your amorous envy will be allayed by prescience of their unfortunate finish...