Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sarita, Spanish dancer, will give a recital of gypsy, and popular Spanish dances this evening at 8:15 o'clock in Jordan Hall. Her program will include several of her own choreographic compositions such as "Rapsodia Valencia", a compendium of the varied rhythms of vivid and exciting Valencia, "Zambra" a Moorish gypsy dance and several other interpretations based upon the colorful, impassioned themes of popular Spanish melodies...
...organ tone, deeply impressive. Even more moving was Der Tod und das Mädchen, in which she made a sustained low D seem incidental to the horror of the dying girl, the call of Death itself. Thereafter came an aria from Verdi's Don Carlos, made vivid by canny restraint. With Sibelius' Die Libelle she proved that she could trill. After spirituals the audience clamored for encores for a good half hour, until the hall's lights were dimmed and the curtains finally closed. Most singers are all too eager to capitalize on a sure-fire...
...vivid terms Deputy Reynaud described his impressions in London of high British moral repugnance to Hoare & Laval. "If we become separated from Britain, it means war!" he cried. "The German press does not leave us in ignorance of that! . . . Remember Hitler's words in Mein Karnpf. The driving of a wedge between Britain and France, the isolation of France-that is to be the German signal for war! Laval, by his lukewarm support of the League, would make Der Führer's fondest dream come true. . . . We have to choose between Italy which is in rupture with...
...best it was vibrantly warm, true in its top notes, rich when it was low. More than most of her predecessors in the rôle, she made Wagner's heroine deeply human, truly suggested the varying moods, projected them forcefully. Three days later she again made a vivid impression singing Ortrud in Lohengrin...
...roughly wiped out by college officials under pressure from above. The whole era of Mencken, Babbitt, the hip flask and the Charleston is seen with as great a clarity as that afforded by Mr. Allen's now almost classic "Only Yesterday". This part of Wechsler's book is a vivid and illuminating bit of journalistic history...