Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Marjorie Church will play compositions of Chopin and Schumann in Paine Hall this morning at 10 o'clock. All music lovers invited...
Goddess of the Earth and of Wisdom is Erda in Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Greatest of Erdas in her heyday was Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink. That the heyday has endured even unto her sixty-eighth year was proved last week when she sang the rôle again at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Up she came out of the earth in Rheingold, sang her warning to the gods with an untarnished skill and dignity that made her few minutes on stage the outstanding moment of the afternoon. Next day she issued a statement that "after...
...attended the Cleveland School of Art and then one day met the Norwegian painter Henrik Lund, who scorned orthodox artistic education and advised him to strike out for himself. Geddes began painting portraits of such people as Brand Whitlock, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Galli-Curci, Enrico Caruso, and a dozen others, but having a mother and younger brother to support (he was then 20 years old), he got a job in a Detroit Advertising agency. He was ousted when the president discovered that Mr. Geddes spent many office hours dictating dramas to the presidential private secretary...
...world of music, the names of Schubert and Schumann probably command as large a following as almost any two other composers. Their songs will be discussed this morning at 10 o'clock in the Music Building, and Mr. Joseph Lautner will play illustrations from them...
...Schumann, Romantic Composer and Critic", Professor Hill, Music Building...