Word: magic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mozart 1. Adagio; Allegro 2. Andante 3. Menuetto; Trio 4. Finale; Allegro Concerto in D minor Bach 1. Vivace 2. Largo 3. Finale "Tannhauser," Bacchanale Wagner "Lohengrin," Prelude to Act III Wagner "Tristan and Isolde," Prelude to Love-Death Wagner "The Valkyrie," Ride of the Valkyries Wagner "The Valkyrie," Magic Fire Music Wagner
Even a savage knows that the world is a place of magic; he wonders what huge invisible hand draws the sun down into darkness, with what inaudible, dark charm a man is taken, suddenly and forever, out of the world, into an unreal place. This last trick puzzles even people who know just how all the others are accomplished. When someone dies whom they have known, they may go to witch-doctors called mediums who pretend that by saying hocus-pocus or by going into a trance, they can make dead people say things to people who are living. This...
...Manhattan last week, a festive party was held in an art gallery. An aged gentleman, hero of the occasion, was placed on a throne and at his feet a "magic carpet" was unrolled, upon which his friends came and laid presents. The old gentleman's name was then inscribed "leading all the rest" in a book of gold and he was saluted as the Abou Ben Adhem of New York City. The old gentleman was Robert Weeks de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Russell Sage Foundation, of the Welfare Council of New York City...
...Kedroff a. Psalm of David Glazunov b. Noon Cui c. Quiet Night Cui d. Serenade Borodin a. Love Song arr. N. Kedroff b. Wedding Song arr. N. Kedroff c. The Bells of Novgorod arr. Karnovitch d. Dance Song arr. Karnovitch a. Separation Patzios b. Old Song from "The Magic Flute" Mozart c. Evening Serenade Abt d. Waltz Strauss
...apartments which paid for themselves in less than 17 months. The mortuary equipment includes "a pile of nice linen handkerchiefs for the bereaved, all absolutely free . . . and a casket that slides out of the back room into the chapel-drawing room on a little electric trolley, as if by magic . . . thus giving a feeling of awe and mystery...