Word: artful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detailed work of producing a motion picture is shown in a special exhibit on the filming of Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer," arranged at Robinson Hall. On tour from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibit will be on view until next Wednesday...
Sparked by the passing of Art Doering, the Lowell House Bellboys swept their way to a convincing 48 to 24 victory over Eliot yesterday afternoon. Hene Gordon and Pete illman paced Adams to a 18 to 0 shutout win over Padley in another game...
...course, our musicians are by no means setting out on a new path when they borrow ideas from the music of the people. Art-music in all periods has taken many of its strong and lasting elements of form, rhythm, and melody from popular dances and songs. From the Paris motets of the thirteenth century to the music of our own generation we are indebted to the freshness and vitality of the dances of the people which have imparted new life to the works of serious musicians...
...Debussy's "La Mer", for instance, employs the rhythms of jazz in an unmistakable fashion. But more interesting than this are the scherzo of the Beethoven Third Symphony and D'Indy's "Istar" Variations. These forms lead one to a consideration of an aspect of the relationship between popular art and "intellectual" music which bears on the whole development of the large conventional instrumental forms...
...every-day use and of the intuitive taste common to all peoples. The process is a sort of musical "survival of the fittest." Our jazz is not different in this respect from the folk-music of other peoples, and the qualities which have made it a great popular art form will assure it a lasting place in the musical idiom...