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...bell in the Kyaikthanlan Pagoda in Moulmein has this English inscription: "This bell is made by Koonalenga, the priest, and weighs 600 viss. No body design to destroy this Bell: Moulmein, March 30th, 1855. He who destroyed to this Bell, they must be in the great Heell, and unable to coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: By the Old Moulmein Pagoda | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying to Proserpine through a crack in the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debussy Embrace | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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