"Pop" Wyman ruled here with a firm but gentle hand; no drunken man was ever served at the bar; no married man was allowed to play ...at the tables; across the face of the large clock was written "Please Don't Swear," and over the orchestra appeared the gentle admonition, "Don't Shoot the Pianist--He's Doing His Damndest."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the Denver House, a hastily erected log structure roofed and partitioned with canvas, described by Horace Greeley in 1859 as "T...he Astor House of the Gold Fields," orchestra leader Jones and his spirited men were interrupted by sporadic but not unforeseen bursts of gunfire that sent them diving for shelter behind a low iron-plated enclosure. Before the smoke had fairly cleared away, they were up again desperately playing and singing: Ha, boys, ho! Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness, Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness? Ha, boys, ho!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary, ...most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today is ... a maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the artist extends his world with... one gratuitous flourish--a stroke of white or a run on the clarinet above the bass tones of the orchestra ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we ...are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, "You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn't it lovely?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a pian...o, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space wher...e the audience is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with org...anized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »