Word: voicelessness
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...moment in the conservatory orchestra. Out of the belly of that bull fiddle he brought such music as no Russian, perhaps no other man, had ever brought before. When learning to conduct he grouped chairs about him in the positions players would occupy in actual performance, conducted voiceless symphonies, ghosts responding. He made his first appearance in Berlin, conducted with success in London, Paris, other European capitals. He came to the Boston Symphony to take the place of able Pierre Monteux...
...catch, light as a falling feather, gay as a string of beads, delivered by a Musetta under whom a property table, reinforced with iron struts, trembled, creaked, tottered. These idealists, holds Madame Leginska, should be placated. Hence, in her forthcoming opera, there will be two complete casts-one of voiceless actors who will elegantly posture and grimace on the stage, one of unseen singers, who will yodel from a pit, concealed with the instruments of the orchestra. Said she: "Why should a man be exhibited on the stage, throwing out his arms and legs in the. stilted fashion of bygone...
Above the voiceless lips...
...time, - the firstborn of the art of printing, - handed down through many generations of book lovers, who have bequeathed us their thoughts and feelings in the form of marginal notes and comments? Take, for instance, an old epic, or some love sonnets, and the faded marking of these voiceless poets, who could appreciate, but not create, lends an added meaning to the lines, and proves that the true essence of poetry is there which appeals to the feelings of all man-kind. A reader's ticket to the Athenaeum will introduce you to a very paradise of books...
...muse is still a voiceless muse...