Word: minstrels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stern spirits by the thousandfold . . . Then, with the air of a minstrel who stills his lute and steps forward to address his audience, Graves breaks into prose: "You wish to know which of the gods originated the quarrel between these Greek princes, and how this happened? I can tell...
Died. Fred Stone, 85, grand old man of show business, multitalented performer, actor, hoofer, singer, comedian, lariatist, tightrope walker, bareback rider, ventriloquist, mime, minstrel; after long illness and two years of total blindness; in North Hollywood, Calif. Famed as half of the vaudeville team of Montgomery & Stone, he made the leap to Broadway as the straw man in The Wizard of Oz (1903). Through such great hits as Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and Jerome Kern's Stepping Stones (in which his daughter Dorothy made her debut), Fred Stone became the nation's top musicomedian, later...
...chapel of the Intercession of Trinity Parish in Manhattan) to give the effect of scenes from an illuminated manuscript. The action is accompanied by music suggestive of everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, played on reproductions of such authentic medieval instruments as a psaltery, a rebec, a minstrel's harp...
...into the Middle Ages, the nation's most avid collectors of musical antiquities present an early church musical drama in the original Latin text. The vocal parts suggest everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, the orchestra includes such authentic curiosities as a rebec, a vielle and a minstrel's harp. The result is a sound as finely jeweled, as warmly colored, and often as moving as an expanse of stained glass...
...without condescension's obverse, the kind of Negro-worship shown by U.S. Beatnik Jack Kerouac. The book's slight plot sags a little, but the gaiety and moroseness of wild, roiled lives are well told, and the reader gets a Spadeful of irony as the dark minstrel Lord Alexander sings...