Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years in probing the depths of disaster and despair, should work so bravely and well to keep up its musical culture has provoked endless wonderment. The Austrian may be short of all the necessaries, with starvation and revolution looming before him, but still, admitting no neglect, he goes to concert and to Mass...
Fritz Kreisler, violinist, gives the Drys a small talking point in a recent statement. He opines that wine has never helped him. Many concert musicians fortify themselves against the ordeal of public appearance by imbibing a festive glass just before going on stage. Kreisler does not follow the practice. He has tried it, but it does not help him. Presumably he drinks wine only for pleasure...
Leopold Godowsky, now on a concert tour in Java, has high phrases to speak in praise of Javanese music and the national Javanese instrument, the gamelang. This is a clear-toned string instrument with that beauty of sound that you find in oriental string instruments. People who have heard it speak of its haunting, lingering tunefulness under the fingers of Javanese players...
...that the week has passed off so successfully and no small honor is due to the members of the University and especially to their faithful friends. There was but one noticeable mistake to mar Class Day. That was the program of songs which the Glee Club offered in its concert on the steps of Widener. There are few who do not know by experience or by report the ability of the club. But to sing old or new classics before an audience particularly in the mood for a program of old and new Harvard songs was to court criticism...
...what about-er-the so-shockingly Gallic pieces? Well, amateurs of the nude have a wide range of choice. Oh quel Nul at the Concert Mayel O Nul at La Luna Rousse, Le Nu Aux Nues at L'Abri, Ca porte aux Nues at the Montparnasse. In fact the American tourist in Paris should not suffer from lack of diverse dramatic fare. All you have to do is pay your money and take your choice, and-especially to one of these nice light comedies by Racine or Corneille-your wife...