Word: rythmical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Other women parts are taken by Miss Dora Drew, Miss Katharine Searle, daughter of Professor Searle of the Harvard Observatory; Miss E. Carter, Miss A. E. Storrs, daughter of the Rev. L. K. Storrs of Saint Paul's Church, Brookline. Miss Storrs also leads the chorus in the rythmic interludes...
...musical accompaniment of the chorus was given in Sanders Theatre. Thirty members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra furnished the instrumental music and the Cecilia sang in French Racine's chorals. This musical chorus supplements and tones the strong moments of the play and is usually accompanied by the rythmic motions of the Radcliffe chorus which does not sing. Enriched by the setting of Eastern costumes against the temple scenery, these periods of the tragedy should prove very beautiful. The music of Mendelssohn is perfectly adapted to the sentiment and secret fervor of the acting which it helps to express. Both...
...conductor wave an appealing baton to absolutely silent and unresponsive hearts and throats? Those of us who remember Harvard boys when their blood ran crimson and ran swift, did not recognize the genus that in irreproachable claw-hammers and faultless ties patted well-gloved hands together in rythmic applause that night. Harvard boys? Not a bit of it ! Young gentlemen from Dr. Blimber's own academy, taking an evening out, in charge of Miss Cornelia Blimber-that's what they were, and that's all they were."- Dorothy Lundt, in Boston Transcript...
Professor Palmer's article on "Hexameters and Rythmic Prose" was suggested, as members of the classical club will remember, by the discussion which followed the reading, at a meeting of that club, of Mr. Lawton's "Homeric Girl," afterwards published in the Atlantic. Professor Palmer argues that the dactylic metre is one inconsistent with the nature of the English language. When we translate Homer we unconsciously seek simple Anglo Saxon words and these are rarely dactylic. The author argues the superiority of rythmic prose and gives an example by a translation of his own from the twenty-third book...