Word: talents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...curious belief is prevalent, especially among men who have never attended an operatic performance, that in order to enjoy the opera one must be gifted with extraordinary musical talent. But in fact, the opera, combining as it does music and drama, thus furnishing aesthetic enjoyment not only to the ear but to the eye, presents a far easier opportunity to the so-called unmusical to enjoy music, than does a concert or recital. By going to an opera and flixng his attention on the dramatic element, as he would in the case of an ordinary play, the man who knows...
Moranzoni conducted with precision, perfect command and a vigorous tempo, getting the most out of the talent that was before him. The chorus was responsible for the uneasiness in the first act, and the tenors were especially weak and uncontrolled; but the conductor, to whom the honors of the occasion belong, was more effective in getting them to rights than the prompter and those behind the scenes, and the smoothness of the second act was followed by an artistic triumph...
Miss George, explaining her offer yesterday, said, "Although I make the offer generally, I expect the keenest response from the larger universities where dramatic departments are already established. Professor G. P. Baker at Harvard takes students with dramatic instinct and develops that talent in his English 47. Yale and Columbia have similar courses, I believe, and Syracuse University has begun one within the past few months. Steps have been taken in the same direction at the University of Minnesota and other institutions. I have been greatly interested in these attempts to encourage intelligent consideration of playwriting among students. Harvard seems...
...offering this evening at 7 o'clock another opportunity for new writing and drawing candidates to enter the competition. At this meeting, which is especially for those men who were unable to come out at the first call, the conditions of the competition will be explained. Anyone with any talent in either the drawing or joke departments should report. Freshmen particularly are wanted...
...Entertainment Committee of the Social Service department of Phillips Brooks House is very anxious to get the names of all men in the University who have musical talent, either vocal or instrumental, and also of any men who have ability at sleight of hand tricks, acrobatic stunts, monologues, sketches, or comic specialties...