Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imbeciles! Pigs! ' roared I to the musicians. Maestro Spadoni, who was in charge, stalked toward me, hit me squarely on the nose." Clara Clemens, daughter of the late Mark Twain: "At Town Hall, Manhattan, I gave a recital. Said the critics: 'Sincere, eager, creator of a poetic atmosphere . . . technical shortcomings as a singer . . . indistinct pronunciation.' My husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who usually is on hand to play my piano parts, was not present. Boris, King of Rumania: "The American press made much of a rumor that I plan to come to America in search of a wealthy wife...
...Szumowska played the Chopin concerto with facile technique and sympathetic understanding. Especially poetic was her rendition of the Larghetic. Countless soprani have made us look for a different type of voice in the singer of Haendel to that of Mr. Schwarz. In the aria of Verdi and in "Wotans Abschied", however, his voice, a warm dramatic baritone, found its true medium of expression and the latter especially he sang with a fire and understanding truly excellent. It is to be regretted that the orchestra in accompanying him in this last played the Fire Music so poorly. It hurried through...
...printed there will be any space left between the covers for poetry, and it is the poetry after all that is on the dissecting table to be reviewed. But even this is simplified. There are two main tenets of faith supported by the editor in forming this collection of poetic emanations of the "Comic Idea". First; the poems are to be grouped each according to the musical instrument that best represents its particular note, and there they are classified, ready to satisfy the reader's merest subconscious mood, all the way from Lyre and lute d'amour to saxophone...
...directly to the poetry itself. The thing does look easy, delightfully easy. And then one remembers Stephen Leacock's account of his contribution to "Punch"; how he collected some beautiful phrases from the morning's news, Dog Man of Darfur, Sultan of Kowfat, and so on, and had a poetic masterpiece envisioned,--until he sat down to find rhymes for the phrases! After all it is enough, without adding further to the preponderance of prose over poetry, to say that the Poems are admirably selected, the kind that you mentally resolved to cut out and paste in your scrap-book...
...pleasant banter, calls upon the rhymers to tell where they have ever seen this beauty about which they sing in sweetened notes. Pertinex writes in his sonnets about "Inspiration"; Whitney Cromwell writes with a pleasant absence of gravity about "Reading an Obituary". George P. Ludlam speaks in a serious poetic style in "Illustrating a Persian Mosaic". Theodore Hope writes briefly on "Nightfall"; and Charles Allen Smart contributes a rondel, "I Mounted Joy at Eventide...