Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the next three years he studied in New York on a Juilliard Scholarship, sang with the Lutheran Oratorio Society at Town Hall, with the Bach Choir in the annual festivals at Bethlehem. Pa., and with the Juilliard Orchestra and Opera Company. Now 33. Bob Crawford is musical director of the Newark Music Foundation, radio conductor of the Newark Symphony Orchestra, soloist and occasional conductor of summer concerts at Chautauqua, N. Y. Increasingly busy, he is a licensed airplane pilot; by swift swoops he filled close engagements this summer in Fredonia, N. Y., Mystic, Conn, and Bradford...
...turn with reasonable hopefulness to Russell's The A B C of Atoms, Sullivan's Three Men Discuss Relativity. In this brief (220-page), disarming autobiography, Journalist Sullivan, calling himself Julian Shaughnessy, explains about himself with the same simple sincerity he uses to explain Bach or Bohr. Realistic, humble, Sullivan calls popular works on science "one of the most unprofitable of all forms of reading," admits ''it seems that I am a man without any marked talents." He wrote his autobiography under the common desire to understand and justify his own existence. Son of an Irish...
Prices: $1.50 top ($3 for the final concert). A 175-piece orchestra, each player getting $20 (at previous benefits the fee has been $15). All other services, including management, donated by NBC. A Bach concerto for three pianos executed at one & the same time by Harold Bauer, Ernest Hutcheson, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Schelling (see p. 32) and two others. Concertos played by Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff, brought together for the first time at one & the same concert. An all-Tchaikovsky program, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch playing the piano concerto...
...Bwthyn Bach to Gwellt...
Almost three times taller than her uncle Edward of Wales is six-year-old Princess Elizabeth's Bwthyn Bach to Gwellt or "Little Cottage with the Straw Roof " Built at a cost of $10,000 to advertise the products of 100 Welsh firms, the cottage drew Welsh crowds at Cardiff's Ideal Home & Building Exhibition last autumn. Insured for $6,250, it caught fire while traveling on a truck toward London, has been reconstructed and now contain: the original furniture which was on a second truck. Not until Princess Betty is nearly double her present age will...