Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This man, lamous as a sculptor, architect, musician, mechanician engineer, philosopher, but particularly as a painter, was the son of a Florentine lawyer, born out of wedlock by a mother of humble station. From early age he showed that he possessed the spark which was to burst forth into the flame of genius. He was not one of those artists of the Renaissence who sought to revive the ancient glories of art by the imitation of Greek and Roman models . He was a tireless student of nature and from it he drew the subtile play of light and shade...
...smooth-skinned gentleman with bushy dark beard and silky hair then added: "I go in a year's time. I shall take every English musician to America with me I can. . . . A friend of mine in California spends as much on an orchestra as we spend in the whole of England. The future home of English opera is the United States...
Suppose a millionaire, proud possessor of a portion of the world's art treasures, dying, should command his property burned, destroyed irrevocably? Last week, in France, a funeral took place. Into the grave of one Alexandre Bailie, musician, was lowered his violin, of famed Stradivarius make. The deceased had decreed that the Stradivarius be buried with...
Married. S. Jackson Coleman, barrister, to Muzza Schonau, musician; in London. The ceremony was performed in Esperanto. Rev. A. J. Ashley, Yorkshire church Vicar, officiated in strange-sounding syllables. The bridegroom is known as "edzigonto," the bride as "edzigontino," the best man, "edzigkunolo," the bridesmaid, "edzigkunolino." "Cu vi deziras havi ci tiun virinon kielvian langle-gan edzin on," Rev. Ashley ceased the solemn fluent intonations, gazed inquiringly at the edzigontino. Said she, forsaking virgin existence: "Mi tion volas." Later, the party adjourned to a restaurant where the edzigontino played violin selections, the sole happening of the day not in Esperanto...
...CASE OF MR. CRUMP-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($2). A mismated musician...