Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Christmas-time has always been the time for singing. The Yule festivities have changed from country to country and from century to century, but song has always had a part in them. Whether it is unconscious echo of the song of the angels over Bethlehem, or because music is the highest expression of the happiness that is the heart of the Christmas season, no one can tell. It is enough that men sing who do not sing at any other time...
...Philip's (134th Street between Lenox and Seventh Avenues). Here a Negro congregation listens to exceptional music by a choir of the same race...
...Ernestine Schumann-Heink. But when Impresario Maurice Grau left, Schumann-Heink left too, went into a comic opera called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany. The others fought for the U. S. So did Schumann-Heink, singing. Now she is on a farewell concert...
...Conductor Willem Mengelberg. He played ambitiously, Brahms' great B flat Concerto-and in a manner so restrained and yet so immensely moving that critics who had hitherto accused him of superficial interpretation and claptrap effect, revamped their verdict. Widely-advertised Horowitz with the European reputation had made big music. He, apparently unconcerned, took his relaxation by spending the rest of the night at the 6-day bicycle race...
Great prima donnas usually do their singing in great cities, where great crowds besiege the box office for the privilege of hearing great music. Ganna Walska, different, opened a concert tour last week in the Central High School Auditorium at Binghamton, N. Y. This caused Critic Martha Wheatley in the Binghamton Press (circulation 34,800) to write as follows...