Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening was, of course, a most distinguished event. As a mode of celebrating it, no doubt, something new and special was announced. Toscannini was the director for the season, Toscannini, universally recognized as the world's greatest orchestra conductor, Toscannini, in Italy a very god. This prodigious musician is one of the radical innovators among contemporary Italian musicians. There are many old operatic customs that he does not like. For instance, in Italy, as here, audiences have the habits of coming in late, especially the swell folk...
...chorus. " Down with the management!" the howl from the galleries drowned the music. But such was the respect inspired by Toscannini that the disturbers in the theatre amplified their cries. "Down with the management! " they shouted, " Ma evviva Toscannini! " The compliment, however, did not lessen the clamor. The enraged musician tried for a while to keep on with the performance, in spite of the din, but finally had to give it up and order the doors opened. The crowd poured in. The opera began again...
Experiments at the Spring Grove Hospital, Baltimore, under William Van der Wall, Dutch musician and sociologist, and at the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, under Dr. Harold C. Cox, give promise of excellent effects on patients through " musical therapy." Phonographs, vocal and instrumental music improved the morale and the physical condition of mothers and sick children, calmed the violently insane, and stimulated melancholic cases. Music is becoming recognized as a definite adjunct of psychiatry...
...these enemy persons. He felt that clearly. Their chilling influence was making him play badly. During the intermission he learned that there was in the house a fellow pianist who had expected to play in the festival. Rubinstein had supplanted him. It was the envious malice of the disappointed musician and the similar emotion of his father (also present) that Rubinstein had felt. Rubinstein tells you this with the deepest earnestness...
...music. While a young priest, his oratorios and pieces of ritual music attracted the enthusiasm of the highest church dignitaries. He became the friend and protege of several successive popes, was elevated to the leadership of the Sistine Choir, and received such success and honor as come to few musicians. But a strange trouble came upon Don Lorenzo. He began to feel that all who came near him were hostile to him. He imagined at his triumphal concerts that the audiences were filled with anger against him, that their tumultous applause was ironical. This convinced him that his compositions were...