Word: piccolo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leader of the Nihilists, announced that Bob Lampoon, the most famous member of the staff of the notorious Harvard comic, has broken all relations with the Republican Club of Harvard, for which he paraded in the G. O. P. torchlight parade on Thursday night. Both Bob and his celebrated piccolo will appear under the unique standard of the Nihilist nominee...
Pietro Mascagni, due to arrive in the U. S. in a few days, together with the score of his new opera, II Piccolo Marat, and a company of Italian singers (TIME, July 28) is not coming, after all. Something very unfortunate has undoubtedly occurred. Said Mascagni, according to a Budapest despatch: "I had a contract to go to New York, but I am not going. New Yorkers don't know anything about Art. They have money, but no conception of artistic things. I know what I am saying; I am saying what is in my heart. I sent...
...flop, Pietro Mascagni remains a one-opera man (which, after all, is better than a no-opera man, particularly if the one opera is a Cavalleria). It is now 22 years since Mascagni visited the U. S. He arrives here next month, together with the score of his new Piccolo Marat, which has been successful at La Scala in Milan and the San Carlo in Naples. There is a chance that a howling success here will make it his "second" opera...
...chorus was divided-a part of it in each of the rivals' corners. Choral shouts mingled with the principals' gasps, with the thud of leather on flesh, with the nervous shrieks of the piccolo. The climax arrived with the referee's musical cry of "Foul! !", which "rent the ear" and which was followed by the trained diapason of hoots and yowls from rival corners...
...bright cover. The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter C, Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade." Intellectual gymnastics, the tight-lipped playfulness of a strange imagination, sonatas for the piccolo-much that is merely sterile grotesquery - occasionally individual beauty, unfashionably arrayed but genuine-half-a-dozen or a dozen poems, firm-fibred, original, distinguished, ensuring for Mr. Stevens a small but positive niche in the imaginary Valhalla of American poetry. A minor poet of uncompromising intelligence who may outlast many would...