Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Press, ever watchful for the dramatic, for the pathetic, for the emotional, failed signally to capture the main dramatic theme of the Democratic Convention. It was a nominating Convention, and blindly the Press sought drama in the nomination, a hero in the nominee. Shakespeare, a greater dramatist, knew well that, in the tragedy of Caesar, Brutus was the moving character...
...works, guaranteed to irritate unaccustomed ears. A new composer of unquestioned merit was also brought to light oh this occasion. He is Alexander von Zemlinsky, an Austro-Czecho-Slovakian. His Third, or "Lyric", Symphony was performed; its seven long movements are all built around a single leading motif: the theme of "a man bent on conquest and adventure, to whom love is but an episode in a life of combat and struggle." Zemlinsky used a baritone voice and many kettledrums to bring home with emphasis his dominant idea...
...distinguished Italian critic, Federico Candida, used the following somewhat confused expressions in describing the music: "Accentuated, even excessive, passion-evident research-sacred fervor-rich harmony-harmful sonority- heavy orchestration-exuberance and defects-character and distinction. . . ." One may wonder about the esthetic fitness of entrusting so indelibly Russian a theme as Anna to an Italian. Why did not Tschaikowski try his hand...
Arthur Brisbane, famed editorial-writer, pictured Rockefeller haranguing his men on The Psychology of Attempting the Impossible, a favorite and perfected theme of his astonishing great-uncle; pictured him stirring them with winged words, plucked bright and burning from the original Greek of the first Olympic leaders...
That American college men are in a veritable state of bondage was the theme of a recent address by Dr. Leroy Burton, president of the University of Michigan. The impossibility of any self-determination in the matter of curricula prevents the student with initiative and capable faculties reaching the intellectual heights he might attain if given free reign. Dr. Burton would give the upperclassman freedom from the group course restrictions and would allow him to follow the dictates of his own enthusiasm...