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And besides, it is not enough to know one's letters; one must also have books to read. What books have the people had? so far songs sung at the café concerts and the stupid repertoires of choral societies.
Cesarine's least eccentricities, as was also that sudden fancy; to apply to the situation one of the most idiotic rondos of her repertoires: "Cashier, you've got the bag; Quick on your little nag" Neither did she spare him a single verse: and, when she stopped,
Often at Fontainebleau there was a court representation, in which the actors of the first theaters received orders to play before their Majesties scenes selected from their various repertoires.
Then, of course, there was a gramophone, with its "popular" and "classical" repertoires; and before the end came, the "classical" had so far surpassed the "popular" in popularity that House piano recitals had begun as well.
* It has been a matter of frequent comment by the ablest musical critics that many noble operas, now never heard, would have retained their place in the repertoires of modern dramatic music, had it not been for the utter rubbish to which the music has been set.
During the whole evening the bands of the Preobra-jensky and Paulowsky regiments had played without cessation polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, and waltzes from among the choicest of their repertoires.
Again, no editor of 540 B.C. could construct an harmonious picture of the Over-Lord in relation to the princes out of the fragmentary repertoires of strolling rhapsodists, which now lay before him in written versions. If the editor could do this, he was a man of Shakespearian genius, and had minute knowledge of a dead society.
Often at Fontainebleau there was a court representation, in which the actors of the first theaters received orders to play before their Majesties scenes selected from their various repertoires.
The Dante symphony has not established itself in the repertoires as has the Faust symphony. It was performed for the first time in Paris at a concert I organized and managed at a time when Liszt's works were distrusted. It would be hard to imagine all the opposition I had to overcome in giving that concert.
The horses, half frantic from the smell of the bleeding cattle, tried every means in their not limited repertoires to bolt the hateful job. The work had gone fast and furiously for some time when Douglas touched his father on the arm. "Dad, look up on the shoulder of old Dead Line!" John straightened his back and shaded his eyes. A rider leading a Hereford was coming down the ridge.
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