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...clock in the Glee Club room at Paine Hall. Mr. Morris Zam will play compositions by Chopin for the delectation of any member of the University, who cares to hear renderings of the works of the great master of pianoforte music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

...appears a freakish thing, unusual in sound as well as in mechanics. Once in a great while, a man will invent an instrument for the sake of expressing an idea better than it could be expressed in any other medium. Such an invention was the foot pedal that made Chopin's genius possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trenton Tough | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Lady of sadness, Death came to her in a white wintry robe. Eight young officers bore her coffin to the royal crypt in the Laeken Cháteau, near Brussels. Albert, King of the Belgians, and the Royal Family paced behind it slowly to the sad measures of Chopin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Empress' Funeral | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Bauer 3. Hark All Ve Lovely Saints Weelkes Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpheas" Gluck Flute Obbligato by Mr. Laurent Give a Rouse Bantock The Ride Mabel W. Danie's The Harvard Glee Club 4. Novelette in D major Schumann On line Ravel Scherzo in B flat minor Chopin Mr. Bauer 5. Soterade Boredine Zut! Zut! Zut! Flgar Finale from "Die Meistersinger" Waguer The Harvard Glee Club

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAUER TO ASSIST GLEE CLUB IN FIRST CONCERT | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...Frederic Francois Chopin (1810-49) famed pianist and composer, born at Zelazowa-Wola, near Warsaw, son of a French father and a Polish mother. At 15 he published his first composition. At 21 he was already great among such great musicians as Mendelssohn, Liszt; soon outranked them. At 27 he began his curious and celebrated intimacy with Amandine Dudevant ("George Sand"). When he died, at 39, after having composed some 200 major works, his stupendous funeral at Paris was but a feeble tribute to his genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Quixotic Dictator | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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