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...soul is not always in haste, the eye does not always seek the restless gesture of the skyscraper, never attaining its sky. A little rest, a little peace, a simplicity complete, a dream symbolized, as Colonel Michael Friedsam has so fittingly said, by the sounds of lute and viol in castle parks-I hope that the Aeolian Building conveys something of this. In its interior it contains all that modern musical demands may require...
...interview to the Crimson, backstage in the Tremont Theatre yesterday. He had just finished a performance and was resting for a moment after his strenuous three hours. Just at that moment, there squeezed angrily through the doorway of the dressing room a musician carrying under his arm a bass viol. Turning the instrument over, he showed three great cracks to the comedian. "How about getting the heat turned off in this the-alre?" he asked. But Lewis, not taken aback by this declared, "What! and have all of us and our little ladies catch cold,-to save that...
...following instruments will be accepted for the Mandolin Club: mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and bass viol. For the Banjo Club the tenor banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and the piccolo are eligible...
...instruments which are eligible in the trials are, for the Banjo Club, the ten or banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and piccolo, and for the Mandolin Clubs the mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, cello and base viol...
...music, well adapted to harp and orchestra. Chicagoans listened with interest to this novelty. Sweet were the strains they heard, filled with all the dreaming melancholy, the tender elegance, of another day. Yet they were glad when Conductor Stock led something else. For sentiment cannot long garble truth; the viol, the violin, the pianoforte are all superior to the harp; nor can that gracious instrument any longer move men as it could long ago when jongleurs played, by candlelight and firelight, in shadowy halls...