Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soloist and orchestra wil men give Schumann's concerto in A minor for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Opus 54. The concluding piece will be the Overture to "Oberon" by Weber...
This last song in Q Minor is to be sung to the contrapuntal clashing of large glasses filled with Bromo Selzer...
Perhaps the most interesting of these books is a first edition of Milton's minor poems. Before the title page there is engraving of the author done by W. Marshall, Milton, evidently disliking the picture wrote a Greek comment under the picture, which Marshall, ignorant of Greek and believing the comment to be complimentary, caused to be engraved on the plate. Milton's comment, translated, follows...
...purchased supplies and services from France and the British Empire by hundreds of millions. They had to be paid for in francs and in pounds. We did not get those francs and pounds on credit-we paid cash for them, except possibly in a few comparatively minor instances. In other words, we paid cash for the goods and services necessary to enable us to make our joint contribution to the common cause. Our associates got the goods and services purchased in this country necessary to enable them to make that part of their joint contribution on credit. Here...
Architecture, dismissed briefly in Webster as "the art or science of building, or construction in general," is the mother of all the arts, held by many to be the first among them all. Painting and sculpture have at many times in the history of art served in a distinctly minor capacity as the handmaidens of architecture, as enhancements of the central theme...