Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolfe Wolfinsohn, a member of the Stradivarius Quartet of New York, announced yesterday that the University has inaugurated a new course on the history of chamber music. The celebrated first violinist declared that it will be the first course of its kind ever given in an American university...
...course will consist of series of illustrated lectures at which the members of the Quarter will speak, tracing the rise of the string quartet and of chamber music from Haydn up to the present time. The first lecture tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock will begin a series of twenty-four weakly lectures that will go on until January, when the quartet is planning to make a tour of the Pacific Coast, but will be resumed again in February...
...also planning to give monthly concerts in the Fogg and Germanic Museums and in addition several concerts in the houses although the dates for the House concerts have not been definitely get. "The playing of chamber music should be encouraged among the students who care about good music. Nothing is more rewarding than this accomplishment," stated Dr. Wolfinson...
...sound, much better than air. As in air, abound wave in water registers against a diaphragm as a series of mechanical impulses. One early type of hydrophone was like a crude telephone. A rubber diaphragm immersed in the water received the impulses, transmitted them to a carbon-granule chamber, thence through wires to the earphones...
...Commander Momsen had been devoting his energies to experiment in undersea rescue work; during this time he had developed his famous "Momsen lung," a last-chance device which would have been used in rescuing the crew of the Squalus one at a time, had the rescue chamber failed...