Word: musics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wolf Song (Paramount). Hill scenery is the background of this intelligent attempt to fit music into a romantic story. The foreground is Lupe Velez, who sings attractively and shrilly through her teeth. Gary Cooper is a gangling Kentucky boy who loves and kidnaps a Mexican girl and is harassed at last by the conflict between his memory of the girl's sweet singing and the fleering chantey of the mountaineers...
...return of Nazimova to her rightful position among the great of the speaking stage is another achievement of the amazing Miss Le Gallienne. Nazimova was born in the Crimea in 1879. Her cultured parents sent her to Moscow to study music, eventually to take up drama as a pupil of Stanislavsky. She excelled almost immediately. She reached New York in 1905 with a Russian company that played East Side theatres and eventually stranded...
Last week, in Manhattan, the most discussed musical arrival was Clemens Krauss of Vienna and Frankfort, one of the Continent's outstanding maestros, on his way to be guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For luggage Conductor Krauss carried the latest novelty from Vienna, a specially constructed suitcase of aluminum and steel to hold music. Customs officers, prodding through his possessions, caused him annoyance by discovering some 250 dutiable cigars. Friends soothed him with the assurance that among Philadelphia's concertgoers is many a person able, alert and eager to send a distinguished new guest conductor some good...
...girls that not one of them could sing like old Seňora Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...
...sole chamber ensemble of any importance was the quartet of Franz Kneisel, violinist of the Boston Symphony. Kneisel was the pioneer. The Flonzaleys have spread the gospel, making it possible for many to become acquainted with much of the world's most satisfying music. Some 2,000 concerts in 500 U. S. cities, some 500 more in Europe-so have they done what Banker deCoppet meant them to do. For balance, clarity and unity they have been and still remain the best of their kind in the U. S., without challenge. Comparable to them abroad might perhaps...