Word: toning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novelty in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 22nd concert of its regular series was Ernest Schelling's tone-poem A Victory Ball. A peculiar enthusiasm for this work seems to have seized conductors this season. Pierre Monteux was one of the last to succumb. The Schelling opus is an interesting experiment, but scarcely a heaven-storming masterpiece. Based on a poem* by Alfred Noyes, which first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, it tells, in music, the tale of the return to earth of the spirits of soldiers slain in the late War. Instead of the solemn masses, purity, virtue...
...guard's third base and his hitting is second only to Captain Bickley's. Davis, short stop, has been fielding well but batting unimprossively. Frantz veteran of two seasons, is the ranking outfielder, but Dupree of last year's Freshmen and Trefts, substitute last year, have shown marked improvement. Tone of last year's team is the regular catcher...
...least hysterical. The treatment is entirely objective. The author records his chronicle of scenes and persons and action with an abundance of that sort of exact detail which makes "realism the only method for romance." If his style maybe said to ring with any prevailing tone, except the tone of accuracy and sincerity, it is a tone, not of desperation or weariness with life, but of constant feeling for color and beauty...
...Martino revealed himself as a scholar and a conductor who adheres faithfully to the spirit of his music, carefully modulating his tone and handling it with the delicacy of shading that this early music demands...
...institutions punished violations of the law by dismissal--either through faculty or student council action. When on the afternoon of the second day the Committee on Findings presented its formal report and the Chairman called its adoption, strenuous objection was made by some to its moral and ethical tone, its length and generalities and to the obscurity with which some of the more practical measures were phrased. Among the objectors were the entire Princeton delegation, E. G. Lowry Jr. '25 of Harvard and the members of two colleges in Georgia and Alabama. The discussion became heated, a southern delegate suggested...