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... his baton than his bank balance. For that reason alone, an attempt at a musical biography under the title of Historically Speaking, THE DUKE is something that all jazz-lovers mustn't miss. The Swinging Mr. Rogers heads a label with the coolest collection ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 662 | Page: 54 | Tags: Music 

PICTORIAL POLITICS: The Coronation Lull in Party Strife

... possibly have had some appalling disaster which would have casta gloom over the period of na tional rejoic ing. This bill speaks well for the common sense of the producer and both Houses, which rushed it through in record time and thus nipped in the bud ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1911
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 530 | Page: 10 | Tags: Music 

Joseph and Others: A REVIEW OF SOME RECENT PRODUCTIONS AT DRURY LANE; On the Side of the Angels

... Biblical glamour of the subject, the other conciliated by this concession to German music. Thus The Legend oj Joseph is, so to speak, the Parsifalisa- Linn r\ f t-lio Pneeion Trollop in the worst sense of the word. Alone among the ballets does it throw a sop ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 792 | Page: 22 | Tags: Music 

Fashions in Opinion: The Shy Man's Paradise

... harmonise and an agreeable sameness of outlook did the rest. No untoward dis sensions were to be feared. Each guest could speak his or her mind certain of assent. It was a paradise for the mentally timid. M XA W tW And the Girl Guessed Wrong Nowadays ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1917
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1087 | Page: 54 | Tags: Music 

The Bran Pie

... themselves the pleasure of reading history than the way in which history not only repeats itself but rings the changes so to speak on a small number of events, reproducing political combinations and movements that have been observed and analysed to the minutest ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1906
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1311 | Page: 32 | Tags: Music 

London Nights Entertainments: TURANDOT

... from the tone of most of the American plays we have had recently, it is quite an easy matter to make a lot of money but, speaking for myself, I have not found the recipes so far offered altogether reliable. In this play the methods first employed are ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1366 | Page: 20 | Tags: Music 

THE LOVER'S LUTE

... lute Why, no for she hath broke the lute to me. As on a pillory, looking through the lute. Queen Katherine, in Henry VIII, speaking to her attendant, says 44 Take thy lute, wench my soul grows sad with trouble.' ANOTHER WATTE AH LUTE PICTURE-THE MUSIC LESSON ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1849 | Page: 32 | Tags: Music 

THE CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY AT DALY'S: PRODUCTION OF ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK'S HÄNSEL AND GRETEL

... both forms of lyric art, perfectly characteristic of the nations which had produced thein but there was no German opera to speak of, and what Wagner claimed was to have laid, by his work, the foundation-stone to it, bequeathing his tendencies, his theories ...

LORD BRACKEN BURY: A Novel

... then, without looking to right or left, he walked straight across to the fifth archway. Good morning, Signore Beni. May I speak to you for five minutes La Giulietta's uncle, having passed on the priest's wheel to his neighbour, had gone back to the shaping ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1880
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 4554 | Page: 14 | Tags: Music