Word: toned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rodman Wanamaker, patron, Maecenas of modern U. S. Art, presented a huge evening of endemic tone-fancies in the Grand Court of the John Wanamaker store. The soloists were Marie Sundelius of the Metropolitan Company, soprano, and Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who appeared on this occasion as an orator. The resources of the great Wanamaker organ, a military band, and a large chorus were also called into play...
Where the grave depth of quiet takes a tone...
...taught in American schools, as opposed to the emasculated history has been introduced no generally... robbing democracy of its most precious heritage." If by undiluted history is meant a broadcasting of facts such as the smuggling operations of John Hancock, there is no occasion for criticism, but the tone of the resolution suggests a plea for the hurrah type of American history upon which much of the patriotism off American youth has been...
...horn Concerto was written for his father, the greatest horn player of his time, who did not like it. His first important work was the tone-poem, Aus Italien, which contains a characteristic Strauss mood: "Melancholy Feelings While Basking in the Sunniest Present." Then followed his famous series of dazzling orchestral tales, path-breaking in form and harmony: Macbeth (1890), Don Juan (1888), Death and Transfiguration (1889), Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (1895), Thus Spake Zarathustra (1896) and Don Quixote (1898) with its notorious sheep-bleating episode...
Baby in his bath. His last output in this form is his Alpine Symphony and the Wedding Prelude, written for his son Franz's nuptials early this year. The Baby of the Sinfonia has grown up. Strauss is almost as famous for his operas as for his tone-poems. These are Guntram (1894), Feuersnot (1901), Salome (1905) which raised a storm and had to be suppressed when it first came to the U. S. but which now pro vides Mary Garden with one of her favorite roles, Elektra (1909) at the first production of which the composer wanted real...