Word: magic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because there lives in Italy today a poet who can make plays to match his music; because Italo Montemezzi sniffed the music in the lines, caught the magic of the mood and translated it for an orchestra; because tragedy melts easily into the rich, sombre voice of Rosa Ponselle; because Giovanni Martinelli was the popular tenor who loved her; because Ezio Pinza was the blind king and believed it; because, by reason of its beauty and its simplicity, L'Amore del Tre Re pleases the tutored and untutored, there was small fault found anywhere with the opening performance...
Grades 3 and 4, Fridays, 11 a.m. Oct. 26, My Musical Family (the orchestra); Nov. 9, The Magic Door (the overture); Nov. 23, Fairies in Music; Dec. 14, Nature in Music; Jan. 4, Animals in Music; Jan. 18, Violin and Violoncello; Feb. 1, Flute and Clarinet; March 1, Oboe, English Horn and Bassoon; March 15, Horn and Trumpet; April 5, Trombone and Tuba; April 19, Percussion Instruments; May 3, Dances...
...returning to college this fall that he would have an opportunity to listen in on a lecture at the College de France in Paris or at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg? Both establishments seemed as firmly fixed as any mountain and Mohammed was very much engaged in Cambridge. Yet the magic carpet of the exchange professorship brings both to him in the form of the series of public lectures, being given by Professor Hazard and Professor Paul during the present half-year. The former will speak in French at 5 o'clock in Emerson Hall on "Baudelaire," and the latter will...
Thus all danger of too potent emanation from the magic stone into the Sultan of Muscat was cleverly avoided...
...harder still to consider a Gothic personage. Francois Villon is generally conceived to have been a frisking, lyrical scapegrace, much in the manner of John Barrymore's cinema portrayal of The Beloved Rogue, an essentially harmless, buoyant, inspired fellow.* The just biographer must be proof against the delusive magic of medieval names and picaresque histories...