Word: opus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short. Opera plus play would take too long so he ordered them run off together. On such a farcical notion did Moliere make his Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Hugo von Hofmannsthal used it for Ariadne auf Naxos for which Richard Strauss wrote the music. Last week the Strauss-von-Hofmannsthal opus, given first in Stuttgart in 1912 with Maria Jeritza, had its U. S. première-with the enterprising Philadelphia Civic Opera Company...
...popular in a recent operetta The Vagabond King; with Dennis King as Hero. The musical play was based on a famed portrayal of Villon's life, If I Were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy in which Edward H. Sothern thrilled Manhattan during 1901, 1908, and 1916. In this opus the poet is represented making a bargain with Louis XI, King of France, whereby they exchange places for a short period. There is no historical basis for this romantic situation, which stimulated Playwright McCarthy's famed poem...
...months ago Eleutherios Venizelos, scholar, statesman, translator into modern Greek of an historical opus by Thucydides (TIME, March 22, 1926), deserted the pleasant island of Crete where he was born, and journeyed to Athens...
...same variety as, although not identical with, similar deluges in the last decade: such as that caused by Mr. Fitzgerald in "This Side of Paradise"; and that of the mysterious Mr. Fabian in his happily titled "Flaming Youth." The difference between these and the Hemingway opus was one of starkness and futility; they were romantic--Hemingway was bitter. They wept copiously at their own naughtiness; Hemingway, dry-eyed and sardonic, merely described the catastrophe and agreed with Gertrude Stein that this was indeed "a lost generation...
...while 27 bands comprising 2,000 high schoolers successively blared Finlandia, a stirring tone-poem of famed Finn Jean Sibelius. Although the genius of Sibelius has brought him a permanent subsidy from the Finnish government, he did not compose the national anthem: Maame Laulu ("The Song of our Country"), opus of Funns Bacius (composer) and Runeberg (poet...