Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The concert opened with Gluck's charming overture to "Iphigeine en Aulide," which was the only orchestral selection on the programme that could lay claim to any musical form or organism. Its absolute purity of style and sentiment made it the more interesting as the rest of the programme was...
Considerable interest was manifested in the tennis games played last summer in England between the famous Renshaw brothers and the Clarks, because these games seemed to be a fair teat of two distinct styles of play, which may be said to be fairly representative. Mr. Evelegh, who was referee in...
It is perhaps unnecessary to criticize the singing of the Glee Club, which is justified by its great popularity. We venture to suggest, however, that while it is characterized by great accuracy and precision, there is about it a certain stiffness and lack of sentiment. The modulation, crescendos, decrescendos are...
The window is more expensive than any other in the hall and '80 is naturally anxious that it should be appreciated. I should like to add, with regard to the execution of the window, that Mr. LaFarge says it could hardly by any possibility be duplicated, and that the mechanical...
From the same source we learn "that all designs for windows to be placed in Memorial Hall must be satisfactory to Prof. William R. Ware and Henry Van Brunt, Esq., the architects of the building, but that the corporation wish to adhere to the original plan, which allowed figures to...