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...lookout for a new and permanent conductor. The German Otto Klemperer (Wiesbaden) was imported for two seasons, tried and found wanting. So was the German Fritz Busch (Dresden) who just completed a trial term of nearly three months. Not for some time, in fact, has anything akin to satisfaction prevailed at a New York Symphony concert until last week. Then Ossip Gabrilowitsch, borrowed from Detroit, brought it a sensitive, self-effacing performance of Haydn's C Major Symphony, Skryabin's Divine Poem, Debussy's Nuages & Fetes and Brahm's Academic Festival Overture. Manhattan, long appreciative...
...flourish of a sheriff's stick or the beating hoofs of the Governor's guard, still this bestowal of diplomas means much to the ideal who are willing to date obscurity to attain it: it is only just to grace their departure with a single token of remembrance. Akin as they are to the useless unfortunates who are designated with a cabalistic ocC., the time of their passing is significant of frustration overtrumped, of delay ignored, of a quiet determination to outpace their starters that was accomplished in Christian humility...
...tunes and made them into rhapsodies. But gypsies were not Hungarians, Bartók held, their jiggings not the real musical stuff of his people. He went forth on a quest, spent two years among the Magyar peasants, listening and remembering. He found the real Hungarian folk-tunes akin to early ecclesiastic music, their rhythms more like Bach and Handel than like Liszt. He collected nearly 3,000 of them. He turned put a one-act opera, two ballet-pantomimes, seven orchestral scores, two string quartets, songs and some piano music. His last works are best...
Such simple, transparently sincere assertions have power. They are perhaps remotely akin to the Divine assurance: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you." (JOHN...
...Stevens. During the 1924 football season at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., there were two fractured skulls, one broken leg. Football was abolished. Last week Physical Director John A. Davis made a statement anent a new football game at Stevens; played in sneakers & gymnasium suits; akin to "Touch Football," played at many a school informally; at many a week-end party. "The present system has changed the entire attitude of the students toward sports. Four hundred and fifty students now play football-and like...