Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conductor Ernest Bloch came all the way from San Francisco to lead a picked handful of men with strings through Bach's steamy and impetuous "Brandenburg" concerto in G. Some of the temperament of this first performance extended, unhappily, into their execution of the next item, Mozart's...
It was 1899 when she came to the Metropolitan Opera to sing for $75 a week. More children, Herr Schumann's, were added to Herr Heink's* string. At the Metropolitan she was at home, but there were the children. . . . She went into musical comedy. They lifted their...
Commenting upon the intellectual condition of America at the present time, Prof. Murray spoke of the wave of self-criticism that is sweeping over the country. "This self-criticism, ranging from the diatribes of Mencken to the bickerings of mean backbiters, is an encouraging sign of advancement. Dissatisfaction with self...
The venture of Mr. C. C. Pyle and his partners in this crime against the untainted amateur spirit will not, it is predicted, meet with the success that had been predicted. There was no scrambling for the balls, players were not besieged for autographs. Mademoiselle Lenglen and Mr. Richards missed...
Since Boris III, King of the Bulgarians, is a bachelor his eldest sister, Princess Eudoxia, 28, has had thrust upon her by default the duties if not the title of a queen. Eudoxia, by temperament melancholy and reserved, is little known to foreigners. Therefore when the Berlin National Zeitung began...