Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found Ernest Bloch teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory, chafing because he had so little time for composition. Warburg made it possible for Bloch to find peace in Switzerland, where he proceeded to learn Hebrew so that each accent, each phrase of his Sacred Service would have its perfect mystical setting...
...Revelation (Nun ist das Heil--Bach). We offer it as our opinion that in "Elegischer Gesang" (Beethoven) we heard the best and most delightful singing of the afternoon; here were best displayed those tricks of choral technique for which the choruses most diligently strive; here, too, was the most perfect balance between the chorus and orchestra...
...lack of power to give expression to my feelings, either to a visible or a radio audience. . . . We recognize our great responsibility. For if I fail in bringing you accurately what has been written, or if this great orchestra fails by one note, we cannot make the perfect whole which he, the great composer, had designed. . . . If each of you today will send a tribute, small or great. . . ." Toscanini's birthday presents amounted to some $50,000, made over $400,000 that the Philharmonic has collected since Harry Harkness Flagler, president of the Society, announced that the Orchestra...
...full meaning of the new Augusta National Golf Club, opened last winter (TIME, Jan. 23, 1933), is that of a monument to one of the finest sportsmen and sporting careers ever known. Men from all over the country contributed to the building of a '"perfect" course that should embody everything Bobby Jones thought best in the game, and that should have Bobby Jones for its president...
...beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with me for I know she will choose whatever shade will best enhance her perfect features...