Word: wind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...door of a house, we cannot hold ourselves responsible for what becomes of the papers When the doorsteps are covered with snow, as they have been early in the morning after the recent storms, the papers cannot be slipped under the doors and are often carried away by the wind. In all cases of loss we are willing to supply extra copies if we have them on file. We are also very glad to receive complaints; often the fault is ours and may be corrected, but we believe that the non-delivery of the CRIMSONS during the last few days...
...selections from Wagner are interesting as concert pieces; but we realize by how much they fail of reproducing the orchestral effects intended by the composer when we remember that the funeral march as it occurs in the opera is scored for six harps and has fifteen instruments in the wind band, and seventeen in the brass, in addition to the usual number of strings...
Rule 24 was changed by taking it out of the power of the umpire to order a change of places, if, in his opinion, either side has a distinct advantage owing to the sun, wind or other cause...
...Nikisch sang the "Fata Morgana" from Nicode's Symphonic Poem "The Sea." Her singing was delightful. Third on the program came Bizet's Suite, "L' Arlesienne" No. 1. The opening movement is a swinging march with the air by the cellos and a peculiar counter theme in the wood wind. In the second movement the flutes carry the air with an accompaniment by the violins and a sort of echo by the harp. Toward the end the whole orchestra works up to a climax and then softens and ends with a pianissimo passage. In the third movement there are some...
...works. Mr. Van Dyke describes the poet as he reads "Maud" and shows us how singularly beautiful and strange this reading was. He says, "It was not melodious or flexible, it was something better. It was musical, as the voice of the ocean, or as the sound of the wind in the pine-trees, is musical. There is given a short criticism of Tennyson's work. There are three points on which the poet's message to men is clearest, the relation of man to woman, the relation of man to his country, and the relation of man to humanity...