Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four weeks box-office keepers at the San Francisco Opera House have been patiently explaining that there are no more seats available. For four weeks inside the house preparations have gone on at fever pitch. This week begins the most ambitious undertaking in San Francisco's opera history: the presentation of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, that mighty tetralogy which, 26 years in the making, includes the operas Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung...
...bred composer. With music frequently inspired, Mr. Gershwin manages to give new life and importance to the Negroes of Catfish Row. Conductor Alexander Smallens raises his baton and an overture sounds out like a brisk command for attention. It is Saturday night in Charleston. A shrill trumpet sets the pitch. A peppery xylophone suggests the dice, rolling to trouble...
...desired timbre, were trained to be sold as sopranos, not only for the choruses in theatres, but also, strange to state, for the choirs of the Catholic churches of Italy, where their unnatural voices were highly prized, and found ready sale. Those castrati whose voices did not attain merchantable pitch and tone, became useless and valueless commodities in Italy, and they were shamelessly sold into slavery by the so-called civilized and Christian Italians to serve as eunuchs in the harems of the Infidels of Northern Africa and Turkey. Following Pope Leo's comparatively recent ban upon...
...swayed, rolled their dice, exultantly prayed to "de Lawd." In the darkened pit lean Rouben Mamoulian, cinema director, tapped on an old-fashioned schoolteacher's bell, interrupted them constantly with "All right, children. . . ." His stage pictures grew steadily in beauty while the tempo of the acting rose to fever pitch...
...GINKGO TREE ? Cora Jarrett ? Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A gothic tale of the struggle of a son and his malignant father, by the author of Night Over Pitch's Pond...