Word: tune
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work. (3) As the test of what Christ would make of us. The jewel that drops from its setting into the dust can not of itself return to its place, and unless returned must lie degraded; the violin that hangs on your wall can not when once out of tune give forth strains of harmony till you tune it again. This is what Christ would do for us all; will you not let Him bring your lives into perfect accord...
...selection "Aase's Death" from Grieg's Suite, "Peer Gynt," the orchestra showed itself in its best form. This whole work is full of exceedingly odd chords and combinations of chords, and the time and tune were perfect. It may be taken as an evidence of skill in a violinist for instance, that he can play a discord when it is demanded, for to the true musician this is as hard as it is easy for the unskilled. In "Peer Gynt" there are several of these well placed discords and their rendering last night was an evidence of the greatness...
...tune is not one that we make too much of; because it is used for new words in the morning, at Sanders Theatre, there is no reason why it should not be used again, to the familiar words, in the afternoon. Moreover, it is a tune that gains peculiarly by added volume of sound. As a matter of course, not only the seniors would sing it, but the other classes and the graduates would rise and join in. This would make a chorus of a thousand voices As anyone knows who attended the under-graduate exercises at the two hundred...
...rehearsed, dressed and went to dinner. The hall at the concert that evening was crowded and for the first time in public on the trip the football song was sung after the audience had repeatedly called for it. The accommodations behind the stage were very poor and the tuning of the instruments suffered in consequence, but the voices of the Glee Club were in better tune than usual...
...loudly and the procession moved on. As it passed Professor Shaler's house it gave him a good cheer. The statue of John Harvard, covered this time with a bright crimson robe, was cheered, and the band played Fair Harvard. The procession marched on up North Avenue to the tune of "Yale Men Say," "Marching Through Georgia," and that ditty which wishes Yale bon voyage. Professor Hart was on his door step to meet the eleven. He got up on the coach with the eleven, and supported by the radiant Cumnock, made a short speech. He was glad the eleven...