Word: songs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice has lost freshness and size, she treated every phase with marvelous control. When, later in the week, Dux repeated her concert, she caused the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy to exclaim of Strauss's Morgen: "So it happened again, the recurrent miracle of sublimated song that is Strauss at his highest inspiration-the song so few singers dare to tackle because it is all spirit. To hear it twice within three days is to meet the gods bearing gifts, .for not many times in a musical lifetime do you encounter such a song and such...
...every year and plays by ear on his $75,000 organ, President Thomas Atterbury McGinley of Duff-Norton Manufacturing Co. inaugurated a weekly nationwide organ and variety radio program to advertise the jacks he makes for heavy industry. Title: "The House That Jacks Built." Mr. McGinley composed the theme song, At Sunset. Mrs. McGinley wrote the lyrics...
...concert will begin at 8 o'clock. The program is as follows: "Awake Thou Wintry Earth" by Bach; "O Domine Jesu Christi" by Des Pres; "Fire, Fire, My Heart" by Morley; two Italian folk songs, "Canto di Caccia" and, "Tu Mi Vuoi"; "Master, Ades Florum" by Carter; "Der Jager Abschied" and "Jagdlied" by Mendelsohn; "The Coronation Scene" from "Boris Godounov" by Moussorgsky; two choruses and a ballet from "Orpheus" by Gluck; "At Father's Door," a Russian folk song; and "The March of the Peers" from "Iolanthe" by Gilbert and Sullivan...
...week's concerts. Berg, a disciple of the famous exiled German composer, Schoenberg, wrote this particular work while deeply affected by the death of one of his closest friends, Manon Gropius, the stepdaughter of Gustav Mahler. This concerto, while a requiem for her, is also the composer's swan-song for he died soon after. A great reputation has preceded this last effort of Berg, and it should prove significant...
...years, A. H. Woods for three, and Arthur Hopkins from 1918 - 1924, he was combination actor and director of plays with all three Barrymores, Pauline Lord, and John Drew. His greatest success as a free-lance director were "The Firebrand"' which ran two years, and an operetta, "The Desert Song"' which indicated his talent for musicals...