Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete program for tonight's concert follows: Concerto Grosso No. 8 Corelli Concerto in E major for Violin Bach Soloist, M. H. Holmes 3G. "A Hunter Riding Through the Green Woods" Hindemith For strings and flute, oboe, clarinet Concerto in D minor for Harpsichord Bach...
There are places in the banjo club for those who play chord and tenor banjos, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, drums, piano, trombones, flutes and basses. The mandolin club includes mandolin, mandola, mandocellos, guitars, flutes, clarinet, clarinet, violin, 'cello, basses; in the vocal club there are first and second tenors, baritones, and basses. Also any specialists at solos on instruments or singing, clog dancing, sleight of hand or ventriloquists will find an opportunity to show their acts...
Since 1859 the French standard for A (pitch used for orchestra tuning, traditionally given by the oboe or clarinet) has been a tuning fork scaled to, vibrate 870.9 times per sec. at a temperature of 15° Centigrade.* Though it has never been adopted officially by international convention the French A has gradually obtained all over the world. Last fortnight Dr. Carl Maria Haselbrunner, editor of the Oesterreicliische Musikerzeitung and honorary president of the Austrian Musical Association strongly declared for such a convention. "There is a terrible chaos in tuning," said he, "a regular musical anarchy. And all because...
...result of his strenuous efforts. Around his temples were traces of gray as a sign of his long reign as the "Master of Melody". He has been working in the theatrical business since he was 16 years old and that was many years ago. His mastery of the clarinet dates back to when he was nine, some thirty years ago. During those years he has appeared in many many stage productions among them "Ted Lewis' Frolics" and "George Le Maire's Affairs", both Broadway successes. He is well known to Harvard students by his many phonograph recordings...