Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rhenish Symphony" by Schumann was the fifth number. This work is intended to convey the impressions of the composer on a visit to Cologne and its second performance took place there in 1851. There are five movements, the first and last being "vivace." The three middle ones are solemn and quiet and the whole leaves a very pleasant impression with the hearer...
...only when Napoleon died at St. Helena. The term "heroic" is applied to it, not in the sense of a military hero, but in that of a perfect man. The four movements depict man's various sensations: in the first, youthful and active emotions, followed by the mournful and solemn grief in the magnificent funeral march, the wild impetuosity of the scherzo, and the blending of all the emotions in the finale...
...seen in the Harvard Collection. Although the study of meteorites is only comparatively recent, these falling bodies were noted in ancient times and thought to be miracles. They used to be preserved and worshipped; and Livy tells us that about 652, B. C., the Senate decreed nine days' solemn festival on account of a shower of stones on the Alban Mount. There is a meteoric stone in the British Museum which fell in Japan 150 years ago, and which has since been preserved in a temple as a relic...
...possibly seem inopportune, on an occasion so solemn as the last day before the mid-year examinations, to speak of any sort of festivities, but is it not time for the two upper classes to make arrangements for their annual dinners? The juniors last year held their annual dinner on February 18, as soon as the mid-years were over. The class of '90 held their junior dinner on February 19, 1889. In each case only about a hundred men were present. As the junior dinner affords the first opportunity for a social meeting of the whole class...
...church, and the actors wore masks, and had no harmony in singing. Greek theatre-going was for only three days, at the Dionysiac festival. The people at this time creased in holiday attire; the taverns were thrown open, bowls of free wine were everywhere and it was considered a solemn duty to get intoxicated. The streets were filled with mountebanks and jugglers and the whole population completely abandoned themselves to pleasure. One man who was found drinking water at this time was dragged by the mob into the street and made to put on woman's dress and dance...