Word: briggs
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Surmounting this impressive barrier is undoubtedly what has given Templeton much of his musical sense of humor. Listen to the album of records which Gramaphone Shop of New York has done (Brigg's and McKenna's have them) and not only is there some excellent piano, but some of the wildest satire you've ever heard. The man deserves great credit, not only for having overcome a handicap, but for being an accomplished piano player (his latest trick being to play concertos after having heard them once), and for having carried on with a musical tongue in the check where...
Last week another John Gay, a Wisconsin politician, made a slurring speech at Waukesha. At a Republican rally where 2,300 citizens were assembled, John Brigg Gay, tall, slender, military, a champion marksman, popular with his fellow War veterans, got up to explain why he should be elected to Congress- a job for which he was defeated two years ago. G. O. Partisan Gay spoke for a full hour, while John Chapple. Republican nominee for Senator (see above), waited his turn and the crowd grew restive. The interminable flow of oratory went on until suddenly Nominee Gay had everyone...
Died. Frederick Delius, 71, blind English composer (Appalachia, A Mass of Life, Sea-Drift, Brigg Fair) ; in Grez-sur Loing. France. In 1897 a member of an audience shot at him for his satirical use of the Norwegian national anthem in the incidental music to Gunnar Heiberg's Folkaraadet. In 1929 Sir Thomas Beecham gave him England's long delayed recognition with a six-day Delius festival...
...Dean Brigg's influence will be respected and honored as long as the tradition of Harvard liberalism retains the character which he has so largely contributed; and even though he no longer labors, he remains the dean of American scholars and teachers...
Under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play this evening at 8 o'clock at Sauders Theatre in Cambridge a program consisting of Mozart's ""Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," Dolius' "Brigg Fait," Wagner's "Forest Murmurs" from "Siegfried," Wagner's Overture to "Der Fliegende Hollaender," and Sihelius' Second Symphony...