Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glittering and remote; she was a primitive thing driving away evil spirits to the fire music made from de Falla's Amor Brujo, snapping her fingers, clucking her tongue; a comic spirit cavorting on a peasant's holiday. She danced without accompaniment, was herself the musician, playing a busy bass with her heels while her castanets turned the tune of a Seguidillas...
Quite by chance librettist and musician were brought together to do a curtain-raiser. An astute and sporting manager, D'Oyly Carte, saw the possibilities, launched the inimitable comic operas which have been wide favorites these 50 years?H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzancc, Patience, lolanthe, The Mikado, Ruddigore. But it was also D'Oyly Carte who charged the famous £140 carpet to The Gondoliers, thereby traditionally starting the passionate if intermittent quarrel between the gifted collaborators. Gilbert objected to the extravagance, and flew into a rage because Sullivan refused to join in the objection...
Between the player and his instrument there are only ether-waves which are directed to the production of sound by the movement of the musician's hands in the air. Thereminvox, the ether-wave music instrument, and its influence upon musical development are of general interest internationally to the worlds of art and science...
...flat emotions; a young musician's painful maladjustment on returning home from the greater world (Paris left-bank); a young girl's brooding over an implied sadistic horror-these are subject to Author Wescott's youthful scrutiny. He has a marked gift for creating atmospheric effects, and a keen sense of human drama ("In a Thicket," "Like a Lover," "The Sailor"); but, immature in his aping, he caters too much to Proust and Joyce...
Into the breach jumped Colonist Walter Leighton Clark. A comparative newcomer to Stockbridge, Colonist Clark had been a businessman. Not until he was over 50 did he begin to paint. Last week, his portrait of beautiful Louise Osborne, herself a musician and a Stockbridge colonist, was judged among the best. In 1923, his growing interest in art led him to found the Grand Central Art Galleries in the Manhattan railroad station. He wished to offer ambitious U. S. artists an opportunity to exhibit their work without sending it abroad...