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...course of his monkish aspirations Kaoru meets venerable Prince Hachi, who lives in retreat on his country estate. There they study heavenly philosophy together until the tinkling of a lute and a 13-stringed zithern behind the paper doors apprises Kaoru that there are daughters in the house. From that moment his elaborate ceremonial courtship, in which every little movement has a meaning of its own, begins. But it is only long after the death of Prince Hachi. who consigns his daughters to Kaoru's guardianship, that he even sees the girls...
...Sullivan Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club Novelty Saxophone Specialty Robert White '32 Marche Militaire Schubert Mandolin Club Legerdemain Specialty William S. Warner '32 Intermission Hittin' the Bottle Gorney-Arlen Can This be Love? (from the Warner Bros. picture "Life of the Party") Gold Coast Orchestra Specialty Lute Solos W. S. Georges '32 Two Guitars Horlick Espana Waltz Waldteufel Mandolin Club Two Grenadiers Schuman-Zeiner Sea Chanteys (arranged by Terry) Vocal Club Football Medley (arranged by Rice) Banjo Club Fair Harvard Gilman, 1811 Combined Clubs
...When Soprano Maria Jeritza made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Tote Stadt, Manhattan was scoured for a "property" lute called for in the book. No lute could be found; a guitar was used instead...
...these things the late Don Francisco Aguilar knew. He had once made a study of the lute and its literature. He was further aware that Johann Sebastian Bach had written for it, that Georg Friedrich Handel as late as 1720 had made a part for it in his Esther. He remembered, too, that a Granadan. Baltasar Ramirez, had been the greatest lute virtuoso in 16th Century Europe; that the art of lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went...
Today in Europe the young Aguilars are famed. Ezequiel is the eldest although it would be difficult to tell, so much alike are they with small sleek heads, black pop eyes. But Ezequiel is the leader, plays the first lute, shows his authority by wearing wherever he goes a flowing Spanish capa...