Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 35 years of age, males of the Royal Family are among the most appreciative voluntary patrons of London slapstick vaudeville, but now that George VI has assumed the throne, many loyal subjects find it slightly improper to think that such crude amusement can be either to the King's or the Queen's taste. Fortnight ago millions of provincial radio listeners to the first vaudeville Command Performance before Their Majesties agreed that the B. B. C.'s female commentator had struck exactly the right note in saying of Queen Elizabeth: "She is smiling sweetly, as though...
...father was a regimental physician, and Sibelius was born at Tavastehus, a small town in the interior of Finland. He was just an ordinary little boy when he began to study the piano at the age of nine, but he started to compose almost immediately. At 15 he took up the violin, with the local military bandmaster as instructor. In his mature years he confessed to an early ambition to become a great violinist. The respectable Sibelius family, however, considered a career as a musician too precarious. They suggested law, and for a time the young composer dutifully pegged away...
Music won out, and in 1889, at the age of 24, Sibelius went to Germany to continue his musical studies. There he immersed himself for the first time in the great orchestral music of the Central European romantics. After a year in Germany he went to Vienna, studied with Carl Goldmark and Robert Fuchs, met Brahms who complimented him on his work. When he returned to Finland after an absence of three years, the young man of 27 was already regarded as a figure of national consequence. After a few years of teaching composition and violin at the Musical Institute...
Smeterlin was born in Bielsko, Poland, in 1892. At the age of eight he was invited to play a Beethoven concerto with the local orchestra. Despite parental opposition he took up music as a career and studied under Godowsky...
...father who was a woolen crape-maker by trade and a fencer by hobby and a mother who excelled in flower-painting had a child. His name was Thomas Gainsborough, and he was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. This lad early showed a natural talent for drawing; by the age of ten he had sketched every interesting tree and cottage around Sudbury. In his uncle's grammar school he filled his textbooks with caricatures of the schoolmaster...