Word: mountainize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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, well says, "A modern composer, while listening to the C Minor Symphony or studying its design, feels as humble as a travelling tinker standing before that marvel of engineering skill, the bridge over the Firth...
...mountain citizens assembled and spoke to one another in low disgruntled voices, progress and a railway were being forced upon their dozing republic...
...following program will be given at the Pops concerts tonight at 8:15 o'clock. Overture to "Der Freischuts" Weber Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburge from "Tannhauser" Wagner Simmon College Chorus Overture to "Russlan and Ludmilla" Glinka "A Night on Bald Mountain," Orchestral Fantasy Moussorgsky Berceuse Cui Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Intermezzo, "L'Amico Fritz" Mascagni Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Overture to "Nabucco" Verdi
...last mountain to be tried will be Mount Tzar the ascent of which will recuire a six day trip from the base of surplies. In all these trips geological data and glacerial measurements will be made by Ostheimer...
...Hall was transformed. Instead of the galleries and plaster statues, a canepy of foliage rustled in the breeze over the heads of two wanderers who were seated at a little table. Close beside them were a score of other tables similar in most respects; a few yards off a mountain the water splashed merrily in the evening coolness. Somewhere an orchestra was playing softly. But all this was of minor interest to the wanderers; their interest was focused upon a white aproned individual who bore a number of tall round receptacles clinking upon a tray. He approached-and placed before...