Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first program of the San Francisco Symphony, chose Schumann's "First Symphony," Sibelius' "Swan of Tuonela" and Respighi's "Pines of Rome" for his first offerings. San Franciscans were well pleased, applauded especially the "Pines of Rome," new there. A phonograph record, that of a nightingale's song, was introduced for the first time, so far as is known, in a symphony orchestra...
...just the wrong moment, with a fierce fanflare of natural phenomena, the ominous Satan (Adolphe Menjou), looking immensely urbane and a wee bit weary, overshadows the scene, lures away the unfortunate bride-groom-to-be from the still more unfortunate bride-to-be. Thereafter, come wine, women, and song in hellish profusion-and especially Lya de Putti, vampire extraordinaire. After a little of this, Satan chases the poor young man back to his poor sweetheart and the tenements, evidently to earn that "hour at the gates of Paradise'' which frequent subtitles guaranteed for every soul that resisted...
There is an old song, originating in another institution, which requires hard discipline, to the effect that...
...There are other verses of the song, but this much is only pertinent. Your editorial suggested a parallel between graduate students and ditch-diggers. There is one, decidedly. Some graduate study consists largely in the digging of intellectual ditches, and will never "get you rich", even in ideas. But beyond that, there is the study which may be compared with marching and fighting, with exploring and discovering...
Digges, Margalo Gillmore, Edward Robinson. Wrote the critics: "Herr Werfel did well to discard the technique of shadowy symbolism employed in the Goat Song. The audience responded only halfheartedly to a superb production...