Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year the neighbors got riled. What with the traffic and the music, they couldn't talk, think, sleep, or get in & out of their own driveways. "I am sorry to say it," said one, "but I don't believe I want to hear Silent Night ever again...
...lived in whatever country the group is bound for. This year there will be 47 such groups going abroad, with membership open to all individuals between the ages of 16 and 30. Some of these will be "Special Interest Groups" designed to bring together those interested in music, art and architecture, mountaineering, or social service...
...everything except Olivier's Orlando, the movie suffers in comparison to this performance. The songs, the incidental music, the short by-plots--like Touchstone's love-making--all add the necessary rustic flavor that make the play so English. The two shepherd boys who are so deeply in love are really giddy, and thereby funny in the play; in the movie, they merely filled in the loose strings at the end of the main plots. The movie missed, too, on the character of Jaques. The uncommon melancholy which Thesiger puts into his part set up perfectly the profound lines that...
...long and highly successful career as composer and conductor, the late Richard Strauss formed some sharply spiced opinions on music and musicians. Frequently he got a few on paper. Last week Western Europeans were chuckling over a selection of his articles, essays and open letters published by Zurich's Atlantis Verlag under the title Reflections and Reminiscences...
...Salome, written in 1903. Asked to play the lead, Soprano Marie Wittich at first refused with the explanation: "I can't do this; I'm a decent woman." Even the composer's father had his doubts, the son remembered. "Mein Gott," he exclaimed, "what nervous music! It makes me feel as though my pants were full of grabbling May bugs...