Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lute Song" is one of the riskiest theatrical experiments tried in the last decade, one which required courage and good taste for its very genesis. Sidney Howard and Will Irwin have adapted a 550-yard-old Chinese classic into what earns the appelation of a charming and artistically superb love story. As far as the play's financial fate is concerned, however, the reactions of large but indifferent Boston audiences may well point to an early demise...
...great paintings were racked on pipeline scaffolds set up in the huge, thermostated hall where Financier Stotesbury once gave concerts for 1,000 guests. Among the hidden paintings were ten Rembrandts, Breugel's Harvesters, El Greco's View of Toledo, Titian's Venus and the Lute Player, Vermeer's Lady with the Lute, Daumier's Third Class Carriage, Raphael's Virgin and Child Enthroned, a spate of Italian primitives, twelve Sargents, twelve Winslow Homers. The priceless Sèvres porcelains were never unpacked. The medieval tapestries stayed on their long rollers. All were guarded...
...lover of Oriental musk who beguiles his spare moments playing on the Arabian lute, Hyman Bloom loves to paint, with exuberant Oriental color, the gloomy, bearded rabbis and synagogue scenes that he remembers from his childhood...
Richard Dyer-Bennet, Lute Singer (Keynote album). Minstrelsy by a light-voiced youngster (TIME, Oct. 13), ranging from the 17th-Century Golden Vanity to a current Anzac favorite, The Swagman (or Waltzing Matilda...
...lute (called al'ud in Arabic) originated in the Near East, where Turks, Arabs, Armenians, Greeks still play it. It was suggested to the legendary son of Methuselah by the sight of the skeleton leg of his own dead son, whose body he had suspended (it was the custom) from a tree. The lute's body represented the thighbone, its long neck, the leg bone; its bent head, the foot; its tuning pegs, the toes; its strings, the dried veins fluttering from the bones. The lute was the great instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance until...