Word: jongleur
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...wings so that he could hear the cheers and applause following her performance. "When you can find a man who can do that for me," she said, "then I'll marry him." But no man ever did. In 1931, while sitting onstage during a performance of Jongleur de Notre-Dame in Chicago, she decided that "I have given enough," went to her dressing room after the last curtain call, put on her coat and never returned...
...European jongleur and minnesinger have their parallel in the Japanese hanashika, whose tongues have wagged incessantly for some 800 years. Diplomat-Scholar Post Wheeler, who was stationed at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo for six years, determined to safeguard the huge literary and oral tradition of the hanashika, spent 25 years talking with the storytellers and collecting, translating and annotating their tales. His ten-volume work has never been made available to the general public largely because he refused to allow the publication of any edition that did not meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold...
Charles Livingston, a Bowdoin professor of French, has written a book in 13th century French called "Le Jongleur Gautier le Leu." He is presently in Macon, France supervising its production for the Press...
...fallen to his lot to go upon occasion to such old favourites as Thais, Manon, or Le Jongleur of Notre Dame for he likes the gentle sadness of Massanet. But upon such occasions he has financed himself and stared down from the rafters at such a distance that personal criticism is rendered impossible. He had always wanted to see what happened down below there and at last after six years of waiting he was asked by friends...
...were The Jewels of the Madonna, Die Meistersinger, La Bohème and de Falla's ballet L'Amour Sorcier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, The Masked Ball, Tristan und Isolde, Aïda, La Navar-raise and Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Tannhäuser, Otello, Forrest's Camille, The Bartered Bride, Lucia di Lammermoor...