Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schools, several famed singers, participated. Large and earnest audiences turned out for the proceedings. On the opening day, the assemblage (some 4,000) rose and sang America. After this rousing start, Sir Edward Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was performed with John McCormack as Gerontius. The famed Irish tenor, in a role that called for a more robust voice than his, sang creditably. On the second day, with the chorus augmented by 150 songsters from the parochial schools, was given Bach's Passion According to St. John. The chorals were excellently sung in a score which has never...
...matters reached the ears of those omnipresent lords of the press-the reporters-it appeared that M. Briand taxed M. Krassin with maintaining at his Embassy a Communist propaganda service and in particular charged one Voline, First Secretary, with having addressee! a public meeting in a tenor most displeasing to the French and entirely subversive of the public weal...
Walter Damrosch, in his eulogy of Tenor Hayes?an unusually felicitous utterance from the famed conductor?did well to stress the adjectives "civilized," "European," as applied to accepted music. For, while it is rare that a Negro comes to note for his interpretation of "the music of our old masters," there is another musical tradition which arose out of the black race and has bid fair to jostle civilized, European music into limbo...
...been due to a Democratic professor-John Coolidge has commended himself to the famed little New England College. He will never play on an important varsity team. But he sings first bass in the glee club and may eventually become its leader, although this post usually goes to a tenor. He has been initiated into his father's fraternity (Phi Gamma Delta). He has met with decorum all the customary American assaults upon the dignity of a freshman (they once made him speak half an hour from a soapbox in praise of Senator LaFollette). And President George D. Olds...
...indignation was most thoroughly aroused by the two objections raised in the letter of Jessie Stillman Taylor, printed in your issue of Apr. 6. As to your habit of inverting verbs, it seems to be much in keeping with the general tenor of your magazine...