Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interpretation of the chorus is free from blemish--a great achievement for a group of amateurs, and still a greater for their trainer. It is again surely no reproach to point out that these students have not the wide range of light and shade, with subtly adapted tone-qualities and suggestions of emotional depth that have come to expect from the best choral societies and professional choruses. Such flexibility and sympathy bespeak a mature view of life in general and familiarity with a large musical repertory in particular, which even fairly earnest students cannot usually attain in their late teens...
...verse deals with Arcadie and May, and is much like other spring poems on the same theme. If the entire number equalled in quality the three essays, the leader, and the translation from Dante, it would be memorable in the Monthly's history; as it is, the only serious blemish is the weakness of the fiction...