Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...allowed no sleep: bells were singing incessambly. The train was an hour late in starting so the men had a masquerade ball and athletic games on the station platform. Pink, red, and blue bath robes were in order together with dress suits and users. It was a weird spectacte and caused no end of amusement. Finally the train started. The rattle-brained porter became more and more perplexed and even the mildest natures in the car used their superlative expressions very freely. About midnight, after a storm of boots and valises, and the flow of oratory and wit. things quieted...
...Dvorak. There are five movements, a short opening prelude, two dance movements, a 'Romanze" and a "Finale." In the first movement the theme is introduced by the wood instruments and is passed then to the brass and this constant change continues through out. The strings keep up a weird tone which reminds one strongly of Grieg. The second movement has a very marked polka time. It begins in the minor and passes soon to the major on the same theme and then back again to the minor. The third is a very dainty, tasteful "Miuett" movement. The "Romanze...
...immense number of unexpected modulations caused a disastrous break in the performance. Since then the work has been given much less than its due share of attention. It certainly is full of beauty having as it does such a wealth of modulation and harmonic effect. Parts of it are weird and ghostly but it all comes out well in a shout of triumph, a fitting close for so excellent a concert...
...first number, Wagner's Overture to the "Flying Dutchman," is based on an old legend, well-known in seafaring nations, in which the action centres about a spectral seaman, whose appearance to a ship's company was a signal for great confusion and fright. The weird quality, of which Thayer is such a master, is very prominent in this whole opera, and readily suggests his subject. Like most of his music this Overture cannot be described, as so much music is nowadays, by comparison with a smooth, gliding stream; there are in it several themes separate and distinct...
...illustrations - almost a score. The western men will find an article in the "City of St. Louis" much to their taste, as it is treated by Professor C. M. Woodward. This too abounds in illustrations - points of interest and public buildings in St. Louis. A Mr. Nevins contributes some weird stories of Salem Witchcraft and the "Old Oaken Bucket" is treated of exhaustively in two articles. Towards the end of the volume is printed a sermon on Abraham Lincoln which was preached by Bishop Brooks a quarter of a century ago in Philadelphia...