Word: piquant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Convalescent," afford a poignant indication as to the reaction of the war upon a sensitive Gaelic mind. Two songs by Verlaine F. Hinners '19 to texts by Vervain were sung by Dr. Davison with a romantic appreciation of their atmospheric contents, and with no slight interpretative skill. The piquant Terzetto by Dyorak, with its inimitable Scherzo was excellently played by Messrs. Gammons Baker and Hoffmann. Duets by Hershey and Brahms were sung in so spired a manner by Miss Anne Gardner and Dr. Davison as to provoke an inevitable encore...
...compelled his withdrawal at the last moment. His numbers were, however, ably filled at short notice by Mr. H. E. Hinners '19 and Mr. W. R. McAllaster '17 who played three movements of Debussy's captivating "Little Suite" for four hands with a commendable understanding of the composer's piquant ideas...
...interests of the moment are further represented by a too long drawn out ironical criticism of Billy Sunday, which W. L. Prosser '18 has thrown into the form of a communication from Satan. The idea is more piquant than the execution...
...little band of Pelleastres that gathered more than a decade ago in the Opera Comique would find now only a timid enemy. J. D. Austin's "Debussy and his Critics," therefore, is pertinent rather, as an eloquent plea for fair-mindedness in criticism than as an apologia for the piquant and genial author...
...Sessions refreshes our memory with a piquant resume of the pros and cons of the Parsifal question, of considerable moment since the expiration of the Bayrenth copyright. There seems to be a slight inconsistency between the statement that Parsifal as a character is one of Wagner's dramatic failures and the following acknowledgement that a good singing actor can make the role entirely convincing. But all this is not to carp unduly. The problem in all criticism, musical or general, is how to hold the balance true between courage and personal conviction and a broad estimate of different aspects...