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...these titles." Many a philological pilgrim came respectfully to his villa at Hamlet's Elsinore. For its articles on Language, Philology, Grammar, the Encyclopedia Britannica (see p. 48) turned to Jespersen. He left behind him more than a score of lively books in several tongues. His magnum opus: Modern English Grammar (4 vols...
...something delirious to read in a spare moment, you might try Panassie's new opus, "The Real Jazz." The word "moment" is used advisedly, as you can't read it for more than a minute straight without laughing your head off or throwing it in a wastebasket...
...small a group took those little red and white announcements seriously. At any rate, four Boston Symphony musicians including Jean Lefrane and Alred Zighera plus a pianist, Paul Doguereau, made their appearance and very smoothly and beautifully furnished two-hours of French chamber music, which included the Faure Quintette, Opus 89, the Quartet, Opus 15, and the Ravel Trio in A Minor. To most of those present, including myself, these works were more or less unfamiliar, but from the very cordial reception which greeted each selection, it would seem as if more concerts of this type, in spite of their...
...unbalanced as Humpty Dumpty on his wall, and neither Dr. Koussevitsky nor his orchestra have been able to put them together very coherently. I have heard enough late nineteenth and early twentieth century works to last me through three seasons. Music of such mediocrity as Lopatnikoff's Sinfonictta Opus 27, Martinu's 1st Symphony, Bennett's "Sights and Sounds," and Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" have been foisted off under the wornout banner of "giving the other fellow a chance," or "Becthoven and Brahms were never appreciated by their contemporaries, either." The program of January 23, for instance, consisted...
...launched the freshest, most bumptious U.S. opera troupe on its second Manhattan season. The impresario is Hungarian-born Yolanda Mero-lrion of the youthful New Opera Company. For openers, Impresario Irion chose The Opera Cloak, Walter Damrosch's latest one-acter, and The Fair at Sorochinsk, a rollicking opus by Russia's rum-nosed Immortal, Modeste Moussorgsky. Eighty-year-old Composer Damrosch conducted his curtain raiser without drowning out the audience's spirited conversation. But for The Fair at Sorochinsk, they sat up, shut up and pounded their palms with...