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...known, for after the première of his Anna Karenina at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, she invited him into the Royal Box and complimented him effusively. A distinguished Italian critic, Federico Candida, used the following somewhat confused expressions in describing the music: "Accentuated, even excessive, passion-evident research-sacred fervor-rich harmony-harmful sonority- heavy orchestration-exuberance and defects-character and distinction. . . ." One may wonder about the esthetic fitness of entrusting so indelibly Russian a theme as Anna to an Italian. Why did not Tschaikowski try his hand...
...Hague and at Gothenburg, Sweden, between Aug. 12 and 24, the Congress of Americanists, in two sessions. The Americanists, students of the story of America, historic and prehistoric, have among their number many nationalities and represent many fields of research...
Figures are dry and tedious but a brave body-the National Bureau of Economic Research-plunged into calculations and came out with a result-somewhat postdated, to be sure, but nevertheless a result. It found that the population of the U. S. (increased in this country by reason of considerable immigration and an unusually low death rate) had jumped by Jan. 1, 1924, to 112,826,000 people. During the last half of 1923 the increase of population was especially large...
...Holland have gone to the other extreme, scrubbing and revarnishing to a state of startling newborn brilliance. In the U. S., the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard has recently been concerned with this problem. Under Director Edward W. Forbes it has been carrying on a great deal of original research, particularly in the chemistry of paints and pigments...
...Benedictine convent in Lambach, small Austrian town, a party of research students from the Musical-Historical Institute of Vienna, who had come to study the musical archives of the convent, unearthed a composition in manuscript, entitled Symphonic in C-dur, nr. 221, Von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It proved to be a tuneful, sunny piece, composed by the Master in Vienna, according to experts...