Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pops: Overture to "Norma" Bellini Air for String Orchestra, from the Suite in D major, No. 3 Bach Overture to "Leonore No. 3" Beethoven The Square and Compass Club Choir a. Hymn to Nature Beethoven b. The Lost Chord Sullivan "The Magic Flute," Overture Mozart Unfinished Symphony in B minor Schubert "Euryanthe," Overture Weber Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky
...time, your magazine contained the most complete accounts of all of the races. Yet this season, several records have been made, and you seem to be entirely oblivious of the fact. Yet you devote many lines to accounts of minor pugilistic activities which to me are far less interesting, and can be obtained from any newspaper...
When the Young Turk Party seized the Government (1922) and (1923) transferred the Turkish Capital to Angora in Asia Minor, out of range of Allied warships, Admiral Bristol immediately sensed that the new regime of President-Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha was healthy, and, in any case, unshakable. While the U. S. Department of State was beginning to wonder whether it would recognize the Young Turk Government, Admiral Bristol strode into the office of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, and two fighting men shook hands (1924). Up to that time no Allied representative had called on Kemal. Soon or late, all took...
...quick-step at the orchestra in the middle of a duet. Before the nervous and fascinated audience, Conductor Alwin brought the orchestra to order with a sweep of his baton, held it to his chosen tempo for the rest of the opera. Sequel: A riled audience reserved applause for minor singers. An indignant press flayed the impertinence of the rebellious foreigner, Feodor Chaliapin. An exhausted conductor said that for Basso Chaliapin, he would conduct no more...
...difficulty is far more than in dealing with words and paints--and, granting for the moment Beethoven's emotional power his genius is nowhere more evident than in the structure of his symphonies, quartets, and pianoforte works. In such a masterpiece, e.g., as the Fifth Symphony (that in C minor), everything is just right; when led up to a climax, we expect something, we get it. Then how marvelously is our excitement assuaged without being allowed to die out entirely! The valleys, tablelands, and mountain peaks have the same convincing symmetry as nature herself. Edward Elgar, the eminent English composer...