Word: threading
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...season. Mozart had the honor of beginning, with his energetic Symphony in D, cooked to order at his father's command to tickle the palate of a Salzburg burgomaster. Schumann was next with his Concerto in A Minor, with Pianist Alfred Cortot to spin the important thread cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston Symphony. In conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner, gossiping women, fishwives taken rag and bone...
...Lady from the Sea" is an education. It is a superb example of the ability of a playwright to shatter his play into two score small scenes, almost all dialogues, without breaking the emotional thread. From the first rise of the curtain, which reveals color disharmony rampant, to the last discordant blast of the steamer's whistle which closes the play, there is a jangling, an oppressive sultriness which distinguishes the play...
...family tablets, and something besides, for his friend the police sergeant. There are other tales, more drab and theatrical, of factory creatures in Stewpony and Clutterfield; and some people think that Author Burke overdoes the seamy side of things. Yet even in a seam he turns up the bright thread. Moreover, he sometimes writes close to subtle, sensitive perfection...
...taking cold. There are more memories than melodies. There are tales of de buts and ovations, of how Peche Melba got its name, of the War work that made her a Dame of the British Empire. There are tales, of practical jokes, most of them expensive, many of them thread bare, which, if one may judge by the space allotted them, must have seemed to Melba excruciatingly funny. There is nothing about the practical Melba, the Melba who promoted the first taxi company in Australia and made a fortune when Australia did nobly by its Nell. But there are anecdotes...
...professorial rostrum and felt facts flow in at his ears and out at the point of his pen would for a moment deny it. It is one of the inescapable features of the system--apparently bred in its bone--that if once you stop to think you lose the thread of the professor's discourse, and the thread of a professor's discourse is not an easy thing to pick up again...