Word: musical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Music...
Whether, however,--quoting Newman--"the time is now surely ripe for someone to take up all modern music into one vast synthesis," may be questioned. Newman, as others have done, cites Michelangelo among great men with whom Wagner deserved to rank. It may one day be recognized that the two have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor...
Were an ornithologist suddenly to stumble upon a real live dodo, his pleasure, but not his surprise, might be greater than that of a music-lover of 1913 on finding himself confronted with Mr. Goepp's "Is Wagner a Master?" Mr. Goepp supports his negative answer with all the impressiveness and argumentive force which the printing of the word "no" in italics can confer. However, the right to his own opinion is one far from the present reviewer be the attempt to dissuade Mr. Goepp from his honest conviction that Wagner was "destructive of melody," that his career was "decadent...
...piece orchestra will furnish the music inside the hall for dancing and a band will play between dances in the Delta. The musical program will be printed in the CRIMSON within the next few days. SENIOR SPREAD COMMITTEE...
Following is the program for the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall this evening; 1. March, Boccaccio," Suppe 2. Waltz, "Dio Schoenbrunner," Lanner 3. Ballet Music, "La Gioconda," Ponchielli 4. Selection, "madame Butterfly," Puccini 5. Overture, "William Tell," Rossimi 6. Selection, "Pagliacci," Leonvallo 7. Intermezzo, "Cavalleria Rusticana," Mascagni 8. Selection, "Aida," Verdi 9. Overture, "The Barber of Seville," Rossini 10. Selection, "Fidele Bauer," Fall 11. Waltz, "Wine, Women and Song," Strauss 12. March, "King Karl," Unrath