Word: traumerei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tawdry arrangement for electrical ringing. The carilloneur must strike every note by a pull on the keyboard lever. Sweat poured from Mr. Breess's forehead as the seemingly effortless notes tripped out of the tower and careered away into the bright morning: "Abide with Me," Schuman's "Traumerei," "Hark, Hark, My Soul," "Song Without Words." He was proud for he played the greatest carillon in the world. But the burghers of Park Avenue, dreaming of a thousand empty bottles clanked against each other by a fiend's pitchfork, pulled the sheets up over their heads...
...their precarious livelihood. In this case, strange things happened. Men, hurrying past, paused, listened, stayed. A crowd gathered. An occasional ear was strained to catch the excellences of an unexpected technique. For two hours the crowd stood, respectfully attentive to the program of classical favorites-Schumann's Traumerei, the prison scene from Trovatore, the Intermezzo from Cavalleria. Then the violin was silent again. A buzz of surprised admiration from the gathered audience; a collection on the spot netted more than $50 for the sightless wanderer with the magic gift...
...selections. Miss Ludgate will preach on "The Unseen Comrade". The musical program is as follows:- Mr. Jaccues Hoffman, Violinist Mr. Albert Sand, Clarinetist Mr. Carl Barth, 'Cellist Hallelujah, from "Messiah" Haendel "I would that My Love" Mendelsshom Invocation Mrs. Beach Mr. Jacques Hoffman, Violinist Adagio Baermann Mr. Albert Sand Traumerei Schumann...