Word: artists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...truly admirable. Owing to some misunderstanding about the piano the Unfinished Symphony was given before the Bruch selection. The audience showed a lively appreciation of Schubert's masterpiece and without doubt it was the favorite of the programme. Gericke brought out the melodic beauties of the work with true artistic feeling. The soloist of the evening was Mr. C. M. Loeffler. His rendering of the Scotch Fantasie was a delightful treat to all music lovers, and in perfect keeping with the high standard of this artist. The work makes unusual demands on the player but Mr. Loeffler met all technicalities...
...gold were used in its construction. The technique of the statue is not clearly understood. The best representation which has come down to us is a statuette about a meter high, which was discovered in Athens near one of the gymnasia. It is the work of an inferior artist, however, and is only a fair production. It is executed in Pentelic marble, and, of course, many of the details of the great statue have been omitted. In a second statuette, discovered later, the reliefs on the shield of the great statue are reproduced after a fashion; the statuette...
...audience must have been somewhat disappointed to hear Miss Ausder Ohe in Liszt's E flat concerto, which she gave last winter. It is a wonderful solo, probably the most brilliant for the instrument. Her abilities as an artist are well known, and though it was her second appearance in the same selection, she received several recalls...
...Niobe, and numerous others. The great glory of Florence is the Duomo, or cathedral, built of black and white marble, with a tower, said to be the handsomest in the world. The baptistry of this church contains a number of famous bronze doors, one pair of which occupied the artist for twenty years...
...class of '91 at Princeton have elected the following officers: P. C. Jones, orator, and A. P. Dennis, debater for Washington's birthday; J. Barns, T. F. McNair, and F. B. Smith, artists, and R. B. Wallace, C. F. Howell, and H. S. Davis, editors of the Bric-a-Brac, with power to choose an additional editor and artist to complete the board. Babcock, Yeomans and Sealy were appointed a committee to choose a class cane...