Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Katharine Schroeder, instructor of the dance at Radcliffe, will start the series at Agassiz Theatre with a lecture entitled "Towards Understanding the Dance." Then come talks on various phases of dancing illustrated by Radcliffe girls, for the double purpose of educating the dance audience and interesting Harvard men in actively taking part in ballot...
...tonight's concert at Agassiz Theatre wind players of the Longy School faculty and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Mr. Elmer Schoettle at the piano will perform three unusually interesting selections: Beethoven's "Sonata for Horn and Piano" op. 17; the Brahms "Clarinet and Piano Sonata" op. 120, no. 2; and the Mozart "Quintet for Winds and Piano." The Mozart Quintet is a charming example of his later style, and the rather sombre Brahms Sonata, though occasionally heard in the arrangement for viola, is seldom played in the original version...
...worthy of attention. Vivaldi, for instance, though primarily a violin virtuoso whose love of flash and dexterity often carried him to vacuous extremes, had command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this less familiar music of the age of Bach and Handel...
Opening this evening at 6 o'clock in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, the conclave will feature the presentation of two plays, one Hans Sach's "Das Heiss Eleen" by Colby college students and the other by a Radcliffe Group. Following that, the German talking film "Heimat" will be shown...
Already an associate in oology, Dick Harlow has been appointed curator of oology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, it was announced yesterday. He will have direct supervision over the Agassiz egg collection, founded in 1859 and one of the largest and most comprehensive gatherings in the whole world...