Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facile, mediocre poet, the very inexperienced dramatist, should be the man who, above all others, succeeded in providing Mozart with the perfect framework for his music." One possible explanation is that a better poet than Da Ponte might have been less willing to bow to Mozart's stern dictum: "In an opera the poetry must be altogether the obedient daughter of the music." It is the usual fate of the librettist to be forgotten in favor of the composer, but Da Ponte deserves to be remembered-not only because of his skillful service to Mozart, but because...
...occasional stiffness of gesture will go in time. He should, however, curb his Toscaninian urge to sing with the orchestra. He gives beats and cues clearly; and I imagine it is easy to play under him in a performance, although the superlative results point to a properly stern taskmaster in rehearsal...
...Dadaists ... I have always wanted to be worshiped ... I must live on-longer than anyone else has ever lived. I am the most serious man of our age." Not far from the locale of this British parlor farce, Wilson's estranged wife deplored Mr. Stewart's stern tactics though not his aims: "When Colin is threatened, he only becomes more obstinate. I have felt like horsewhipping Colin myself sometimes." The strife-torn saga was not concluded at week's end. After abandoning his. Netting Hill Gate lodgings, Outsider Wilson and the heedless Joy were reported bound...
Died. Helen Amelia Thompson ("Ma") Sunday. 88, widow of Bible-banging Evangelist Billy Sunday who besought the unsaved with him for 39 years, presided over the sawdust trail alone ("God is my business manager") after he died in 1935; of lung cancer; in Phoenix, Ariz. Ma Sunday's stern pronouncement: "The country is in a mess, and God knows about...
Last week, in the American University's Watkins Gallery in Washington, D.C., the windfall result of their modest collecting spree was on view-a selection of 86 Japanese and Chinese paintings, sculpture and ceramics from their collection in Tokyo and Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay...