Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With my friend Mme. Kittle, I sat on a couch in the wings. Mme. Olszewska saw us?. She sang, right with the music. 'What are you doing there, you dirty dogs?' I never heard a taxicab driver use such language. Then she came closer and spat. It [the spittle] struck Mme. Kittle on the cheek. I fainted and they carried me to my dressing-room...
...orchestra. For years Paris has been the notable exception. Now the formation of a Paris orchestra is announced. Two million francs have been subscribed, 80 musicians engaged. Louis Fourestier, Ernest Ansermet and Alfred Cortot will conduct the first season's concerts, to be devoted impartially to modern and classical music...
Arthur Seymour Sullivan, meanwhile, was a serious-minded music student for all his Irish-Italian blood and romantic ancestry: his grandfather was favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled...
Sullivan, for all the delirious ridiculousness inherent in his music, had long been chafing at Gilbert's contagiously ridiculous topsy-turvydom. He had long cherished the ambition to do something more dignified, more pretentious, more "worthy" of his musical ability. Already he had demanded that Gilbert write something more substantial "without the supernatural and improbable;" Gilbert had bridled, rued, agreed to. capitulate, then blithely written?The Mikado! Superbly Sullivan matched improbable for improbable, comic for comic, and suspected miserably that he was belittling...
...Author. Born in Boston some 40 years ago, educated conventionally at Harvard, Isaac Goldberg nevertheless displays the versatility characteristic of bright Jews, interested as much in music as in romance? languages he is author of numerous Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Books" on music and musicians; translator from the Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish; authority on Spanish-American literature; biographer of such heterogeneous characters as Havelock Ellis, Mencken, Nathan, and now the Topsy-Turvy Twins...