Word: pol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stekene, Belgium, Conductor Van Hove de Saint-Pol put his orchestra through the paces of a brisk number, brought it to an abrupt end and ordered a funeral march. Whispering complaints, his players fumbled for their scores. But Saint-Pol hissed them quiet, tapped for attention, led the march through and dropped dead...
There followed the Golden Age at the Metropolitan, with such singers as Nordica, Pol Plancon, Fremstad, the de Reszkes and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. But when Impresario Maurice Grau left, Schumann-Heink left too, went into a comic opera called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany...
...Pol Rodger...
Director-in-chief Hofmann's pol icy will doubtless continue to permit Curtis Institute teachers to perform as well as instruct. Active interplay of public and professional life keeps classrooms alive. Herr Hofmann was himself taught by Anton Rubenstein at an active period during the latter's career. Conversely, Herr Hofmann has found time during his best piano years for activities outside the concert hall, not only teaching but inventing mechanisms. Many a luxurious motor car bears Hofmann shock absorbers. By a Hofmann device, the finest shadings of a master's touch can be charted beside the perforations in pianola...
Thereupon Senator Ralston, Demo-cratic sage, proposed that there should be a new deal. Let the Government, said he, devise a Muscle Shoals pol- icy. In conformity with that policy, let there be new bids. This was tantamount to postponing the whole question for at least a year...