Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principle may be extended to the art of music, in which tonal variations are evanescent. Great virtuosi, who know how to mingle murmurous, tinkling and strident sounds, might be said to possess the "Great Ear." Master perfumers presumably have the "Great Nose...
Last week, among many notables who applauded Kreutzberg in Manhattan, were German Ambassador and Frau von Prittwitz, Playwright Noel Coward, Actress Beatrice Lillie, Singers Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden, and Mrs. Vincent Astor. They saw a young hairless-headed fellow make swift, strange pictures to music by Chopin, Scott, Wilckens, de Falla, Satie. They saw him clown with Stravinsky and go gibbering mad with Prokofieff. So enthusiastic was Ambassador Prittwitz that he took steps to arrange a recital in Washington. Dancer Kreutzberg and the bright, wispish Georgi will go thence to Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Boston...
Modest Petrovitch Moussorgsky wrote other music than Boris Godounov. Yet so little is known of it, so little of the man himself, that to many the new biography by Oskar von Riesemann will be news entirely. The story is of a young aristocrat who left military service to become a government clerk that he might have more time for music. Borodin remembered him in the early days as a foppish fellow who played bits from Trovatore and Traviata but that pretty stage passed swiftly. A peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people...
...Schubert", Professor Spalding, Music Building...
...Schumann, Romantic Composer and Critic", Professor Hill, Music Building...