Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even Premier Mussolini, is perhaps so much the idol and spoiled darling of the Italian people as Gabriele d'Annunzio. His brutally successful amours and the beauty of his poetry captivated them long ago. His capture of Fiume fired the awakening Nationalism of his countrymen to a pitch of frenzy at which he became almost deified. Last week there occurred a striking demonstration of the passionate esteem in which he is still held...
Unheralded by front-page stories, Lauritz Melchior, Danish baritone turned tenor, made his U. S. début last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, as Tannhäuser in the first of six Wagner matinées. His performance was not flawless. He was not always faithful to pitch. His high tones, many of them, revealed all too plainly his baritone past. But on the whole he acquitted himself admirably, went in one afternoon to the head of the Metropolitan's class of availables for German tenor roles. An audience whose faith in German tenors has been badly shaken, took...
Meanwhile Premier Briand received a deputation of 280 Senators out of a Senate numbering 311. These men had at last been roused to a notable pitch of alarm by the now almost hackneyed "national emergency." They assured M. Briand that they would stand behind him should he attempt "to enforce action from the Deputies." They let it leak out that, before putting up with a great deal more nonsense from the Deputies, they would cause the Chamber to be dissolved and order new elections held or even place the government in the hands of a dictature...
After another day of debate such a pitch of exasperation was reached that Deputy Balanant, famed for having lost most of his front teeth last year while "arguing" with another deputy, introduced the final "spoof amendment," which the disgusted and wearied deputies whooped through...
...Hymn." Judges Walter Henry Hall, professor of Church and Choral Music at Columbia University, Dr. Holies Daun, head of the department of musical educa-at New York University, and H. O. Osgood, associate editor of the Musical Courier put their heads together, added up points given on interpretation, ensemble, pitch, tone and diction, found that the Concordia Society of Wilkesbarre, Pa., under the direction of Professor Adolph Hanson had won first place, a point score of 273 out of a possible 300. Second came the Guido Chorus of Buffalo, N. Y., with a score...