Word: toted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composed an intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other great composers who have written bell-music...
...Sincerely speaking, I believe my own work superficial. It is true that new composers have much talent, but they are not strong. . . . With the exception of Eric Korngold, composer of Der Tote Stadt, I cannot mention anyone I believe in. I am now working on a libretto by Hugo von Hoff-mansthal, author of The Miracle, which suggests great possibilities...
This Jeritza is a miracle of that vague quality we call personality. No one of those present at the time will forget his first sight of her in Die Tote Stadt a year ago. The wizardly clever but banal music had woven a climax for a superb entrance. A door swung open, and on the upper landing of a low stairway a flame of orange appeared, a Juno-like figure radiant in smiles and a blond glamor. That was Jeritza...
Contrary to most relief dinners, the outlay for the meal itself will be practically nothing. In this way, besides the unusual appeal made by the simplicity of the whole affair, the funds collected can be turned over "in tote" to be used over seas, without being deviated into numerous channels of expense. This in itself, is an admirable plan. But it is with the flame of the candle that the diners will be most concerned. There burns the mysticism of the lives of a coming generation; great and unselfish indeed is the spirit of those who would shield...