Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lent is a season of music; composers, stirred by the most human and the most tragic story in the world, have written notes to sound its sadness or its glory. The greatest of all such music is The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew, by Johann Sebastian Bach; this, 199 years after it was heard for the first time, was twice performed last week in Manhattan by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Ossip Gabrilowitch...
There is no variation of critical opinion concerning the St. Matthew Passion. "The deepest expression of devotional feeling that the art of music affords," is the description which critics attempt to elaborate. Lawrence Gilman, able critic of the N. Y. Herald-Tribune, mentioned "pages of sorrowful, solacing tenderness, with their transported beauty, their touching devoutness, their measureless humanity...
...Week, and lest the spell of a "musical masterpiece" be injured. Further, Mr. Gabrilowitch said this: "In all the years of my musical experience I have never found as much joy and inspiration in any artistic task as in the study and preparation of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The performance . . . represents the work of three consecutive years...
...Trail of '98. Here is a good old-fashioned thriller on a glorified scale. It is in Alaska's snowy Klondike where men are after gold, gold, GOLD! The villain, of course, is named Jack Locasto (Harry Carey). He has plenty of gold and a whiskey passion for the unspeakably lovely heroine (Dolores Del Rio). But she is properly enamored of a poor but handsome prospector (Ralph Forbes), who hopes some day to give her a house with 100 windows. He suffers life and near death and blizzard, finally finds gold, comes back to save dark Dolores from the clutches...
...interpret. And when another young man, a professor in this case, reads the warmest poetry in the language "vulgarly" (as a discriminating Frenchman in the graduate school put it) not to say uninspiredly and unappreciatively,--that is a transgression and torturing abuse of "things conceived in the blood and passion of the heart". To many Harvard men the English Department has been reduced to a group of definitive and meticulous scholars for the training of Ph.D.s who have failed, for the most part, to reach the undergraduate and who, in the maxe of sheer quantitative labor, have lost hold...