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...especially directed toward concentrators in fields other than American history, literature, or philosophy. Its goal is the breaking open of the hard, self-sufficient nuggets of specialized knowledge, and correlating them with the main streams of life. The thought is a variation on a familiar theme; the chord has been struck by President Conant time and time again. It is, today, most concretely expressed in the University Professorships which require men without pigeon-holed ideas but with great synthesizing powers...
Prodigious Ruth, not half so bumptious as she looks, sees music simply. Her first heavy chord is impressively crashing in Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique but to her it is just Beethoven's father yelling "Get up !" to the boy whose practicing started at dawn. Father Slenczynski teaches young Ruth to say her prayers religiously. Be fore her conventional blessings, she asks God always "please, to make me the world's greatest pianist." Father Slenczynski thinks God has already answered his daughter's prayer...
...House Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, to whom the annual memorial service is his one big occasion, closed his eyes, upturned his face, lifted his clasped hands toward the ceiling and began : "Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open. . . ." A chord was struck on a small, cheap piano that stood beside the rostrum and Dorothy Reddish, a young woman employed by the Washington Telephone Company, sang There Is No Death. "The Lord Is My Shepherd. . . ." For ten minutes Chaplain Montgomery gave the mourners his best. Then Patrick J. Haltigan, House reading clerk, began : "Huey Pierce Long, Senator from...
After Calloway's band has crashed out the final tremendous chord of the picture, the curtains part and there on the stage is Ray Noble ready to carry on the good work. Mr. Noble brings all his syncopated talents to the Met's stage, and runs the gamut from his own interpretation of "The Blue Danube", to a medley of the swing category, aided by Al Bowell, advertised as "England's Prince of Song." Maybe it was because we had heard Calloway's organization first, but Noble didn't seem to live up to his advance notices. At any rate...
...literature. The style and the methods employed are very reminiscent of Haydn and Mozart, but even in this early work, a certain individuality is already present which was for a time to make Beethoven the black sheep in the musical fold. The use of a dominant seventh chord to open the work is an example of this...