Word: pleasingness
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The San Carlo Grand Opera Company opened its brief Boston season at the Opera House on Monday with "Aida"--an ambitious undertaking for a limited company on a first night. Antiquated scenery, a badly trained ballet, and several voices that did not seem to have caught the Opera House range...
For pleasing novelty there was a "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis," by Vaughan Williams. Last year his London Symphony pleased so that it was repeated. This fantasia is at least as fine as the symphony, and is a particularly noteworthy example of what can be done with scanty...
Perhaps the most pleasing of all effects were contained in the large assortment of feminine beauty and the rather full program of dancing. Certain critics bewail the inactivities of that generally superfluous character, the censor. Far be it from us to criticise the critics, but one may ask if a...
Yesterday's Symphony concert, Mr. Monteux conducting, was the second of the Boston series. As often, the eagerly-awaited proved disappointing in the extreme; what was expected to be dull and prosaic was interesting and charming. The Dvorak of the F-major symphony shows himself a skillful musician, interesting if...
Elsewhere in this number, humor comes more easily. The author of the casual lines entitled "By the Way" has done his work uncommonly well. In economy of expression he excells as well as in the quality of his matter. Likewise, "Typical Topics" and "Lampy's Question-Box" are well done...