Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will never sing again even for her own pleasure or to call the cows home to be milked as the evening sun goes down behind the Kansas hills. Perhaps the twenty-two year old prima donna never enjoyed singing anyhow. It may well have been the lure of the splendor of grand opera costumes that brought the soprano to New York in 1926 at the head of an army of enthusiastic supporters. Suspicions of this nature are strengthened when one recalls that in the statement to the press there is no promise not to appear before the hungry chickens...
...creative side of the theatre has perhaps been overlooked as the undergraduates brought to Cambridge work from afar in which the emphasis was decidedly on the appeal and glitter of exotic pageantry. The Dramatic Club apparently chose to focus its attention on a finished performance with all the attendant splendor of a circus parade, rather than spend the greater part of its efforts on original experimentation. The entertainment offered has been its own reward. The Club's last few performances without question developed a much to be desired technique in the staging of its presentations. Now with the announcement...
...Union will play host tonight to the Juniors and their guests. No crystalline ballroom splendor, no mirrored nightclub radiance greet there the visitor to Cambridge. Yet Harvard and its traditions are not of the tinsel type; and though the gray University bedecks itself now and then for merrymaking, it cannot forget its real hue. New England solidity, Harvard, the Union, the Dance, all seem to merge for the night; but the parts show through. They are all of the tradition...
...Arranged by Archangelsky When I View Chadwick Lord Who Has Made Holst Smith College Glee Club To All You Ladies Callcott The City of Chow Bantock The Galway Piper Irish Folk Song Harvard Glee Club The Day of Judgment Arranged by Archangelsky Ospodi Pomiluy Lsvonsky Joint Number The Splendor Falls Holst Down the Wagon Way North Country Folk Song The Keel Row Tyneside Air, arranged by Fletcher Smith College Glee Club In Dulci Jubilo Gabrielli Adoramus Te Palestrina Joint Number Then Round About the Starry Throne Handel Joint Number
...loved the people and the soil whence they came. He would put them in his music and that music would be unfixed by petty patterns. So the idea grew and out of it came songs with strange, bright har monies and crazy, reckless rhythms. Came Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous cho ruses, compositions for piano, for orchestra. The artist grew...