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Word: songfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opens today, and will last until Monday, April 13. All Seniors are eligible to compete, and should hand all material in to Lowell J21. The winners of the competition will receive free tickets to the Class Day exercises. Words for the hymns should be written for some well-known song, and the designs must be drawn on white paper in black ink, emphasis being on simple construction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR HYMN AND DESIGNING CONTESTS ARE OPENING TODAY | 3/21/1931 | See Source »

...themes. With great skill Berg has woven a pattern of absolute forms, in the first act used a Suite and a Passacaglia with 21 variations, in the second a five-movement symphony, in the third a series of inventions. Like Schönberg he used the combination of song and speech which the Germans call sprechstimme. But behind his strict design and his many novel effects (in one scene he introduces an accordion, harmonica and guitar), there is the same savage pity that Büchner had for his soldier. One European critic has called Wozzeck the greatest opera since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wozzeck in Philadelphia | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...home: Barbara Stanwyck will hold them. She makes the dialog - so jerky and stilted on the lips of the rest of the cast - sound as though it were superbly written. In the picture she has the same troubles as the girl in Rodgers & Hart's famed song, from which the title is taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Steinway & Sons ($1,000), for the advertisement most distinguished for its combination of the elements of illustration, headline, text and type ("A song for parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prize Day | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Lakme, Bell Song by Soprano Lily Pons (Victor, $1.50)-This will explain the revival of Manhattan's interest in coloratura opera, recently pronounced dead by Coloratura Amelita Galli-Curci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: March Records | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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