Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...operas, Bizet's "Carmen," was presented Tuesday night to a small but responsive audience by the Boston Opera Company in conjunction with the Pavlowa Ballet Russe. The gorgeous wealth of melody and the exquisite sensuous indulgence, to which the work owes its universal appreciation, taken together with its tragic climaxes, make "Carmen" extremely difficult to produce. Although the performance was uneven and disheartening at first, it improved immensely as the evening progressed, and the work may be said to have been on the whole extremely creditable...
...given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Cambridge, will take place tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the famous Russian pianist, will be the soloist and Dr. Karl Muck will conduct. The program is as follows: Symphony in C minor, No. 5, Beethoven "Tragic" Overture, Brahms Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E minor, No. 1, Chopin Prelude to "The Mastersingers," Wagner...
...Brahms, "Tragic Overture...
...janatorial department of the University. Yet the average undergraduate has little desire to hasten the process so thoughtfully provided by Providence. Hence the daily advent of the goody and her dust-provoking broom is a constant trial. He leaves each morning for his nine o'clock with the tragic assurance that he will return to find a smooth, even coat of the vital principle spread over his table-top, his "English Composition," and his haberdashery. The suggestion that for that venerable engine of superficial sanitation,--the broom, the electric vacuum cleaner might be substituted, will doubtless be met with...
...hope that this tragic situation--the catastrophe of greatness, induced, partly, at least through the faults of its virtues--will have a solution worthy of the noble ideals that sustained Germany's upward flight. Let us hope that it will lead to the purging, purifying, and strengthening of German greatness through this fearful trial. A letter received recently from a German judge, now fighting as lieutenant on the Russian frontier, points to such a hope. He writes: 'The conduct of our men in this war is beyond all praise. Whatever may be the outcome of the war, the German people...