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...basis, he attempts to show how the great composers of all ages have found their ultimate inspiration in the folk songs of their own native lands, in those snatches of melody which have become the common property of their people. Thus Bach himself was able to produce his peerless fugues only because there had preceded him generations of smaller composers under whose subtle influence there had spread among the quiet people of northern Germany a habit of music...
...minutes later she nailed a single. As stylish as she was quick, Homewood Flirtatious backed her bracemate beautifully on Sulu's two finds, made two more of her own in the next 20 minutes. The second heat of the run-off between Doctor Blue Willing and Sports Peerless, was a mere formality. When it was over, the white-&-black pointer Homewood Flirtatious got first prize-$1,500 and a leg on the R. W. Bingham Trophy...
...thou, Cathleen, my peerless starry swain...
...seven years thereafter Sembrich continued to give recitals. On one program she sang folksongs in a dozen different dialects. After 1917 she devoted herself to teaching. And as a teacher she was peerless. Paderewski, Sembrich's compatriot, once called her "the most musical singer he had ever known." The late Henry Edward Krehbiel, for 43 years critic of the New York Tribune, described her style as "exquisite and plainly the outgrowth of a thoroughly musical nature.'' In the New York Sun William I. Henderson, dean of U. S. music critics, said last week: "That her name will...
...against the alliance. Those who favored it claimed such a merger would solve the financial difficulties besetting both organizations. By moving into the Metropolitan the Philharmonic would save the $75,000 rental it pays annually to Carnegie Hall. The quality of opera performances would be greatly improved if the peerless Philharmonic played in the pit and if the conductors were as expert as Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer or Arturo Toscanini...