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Diary entry for 1907-05-25
... triviality. Bad passing motions etc. (in overall context and at the detailed level). [cf. vol. III.] (Motives are too short!) ...
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Diary entry for 1913-04-13
... such humor, the unexpected nonetheless affects him painfully, as if he were again confronted by a person who sets an action in motion without cause, which stands in contradiction to what has previously taken place. This cold snap is a sign that we all ...
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Diary entry for 1914-01-26
... therefore can no longer gain an idea of how much more beautiful and expressive he could sing at the slow tempo without thereby offending against the law of what one could call forward motion. Of course, only a deepened art of singing could finally solve the ...
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Diary entry for 1915-02-24
... motion made at the outset of a legal hearing. Lie-Liechen schreibt einen langen Brief an Mama, dem ich blos einen Zettel beifüge. Der Winter gleichsam in zweiter Auflage! – Die Bedienerin bestellt neuerdings Kohle, obendrein so viel, als wollte sie sich ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-20
... only the surface: for even if the rich Englishman simply seeks to meet the rich German, he knows very well that he can set the war in motion only with the millions of poor people from among England's poor against the millions of poor people from among ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-19
... into motion. In response, Jonas reminds me of the words Brahms spoke to Miss Florence May when she asked what the quickest path to success is. "Take your scores, go into the woods and read them intently there." Weisse arrives fifteen minutes early and ...
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Diary entry for 1921-07-07
... of Tantalus, this being so because she is totally immaculate. Goethe is artful in the way he begins to set the drama in motion before our eyes. Thoas, the king, has been soliciting Iphigenie for a long time. But it is only the victorious outcome of a ...
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Diary entry for 1926-08-06
... attention. At the very beginning it is difficult for those who must first set the culture of a place in motion; the descendants are attracted to researching how their ancestors fulfilled this, their first obligation. Perhaps it is less the satisfaction of a ...
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Diary entry for 1931-02-24
... Over in Free Composition; the section on Motion from an Inner Voice elaborated. At 4:45, Lie-Liechen turns on the radio equipment and we listen to a record of Chaliapin singing the "Calumny Aria" from The Barber of Seville – perhaps the most ...
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Diary entry for 1931-02-26
... suggest that he might sometime also make use of quotation marks to give Korngold a hook to the chin. After 11 o’clock, dictation for Reaching Over and Motion from an Inner Voice in Free Composition. The lesson had almost catastrophic consequences: a ...