Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several trips are being planned by the Glee Club. They will again go to Canada and a concert is to be given in New Haven the night before the Harvard-Yale game. Other concerts that...
...Green '29, composer of "Coquette," will play the latest jazz pieces, which he has brought back from a recent tour in Europe. The concert will be followed by newsreels and comedy. All members of the University are invited to attend this initial Sunday evening entertainment...
...treaty is a speaking solemnly of undisputed things. It is something of a feat to have persuaded so many nations (14 of them besides the U. S.) to speak solemnly in concert about anything. The difficulties in the way of getting such a treaty ratified are: 1) Some people object to solemn-speaking on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more unreal it is; 2) Some people object on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more binding it is-the more it may commit the U. S. to an international course beyond...
...Colonel and temporary Brigadier General. At this time he came to the U. S. where he was employed as a floorwalker in the New York department stores, of Abraham & Straus and John Wanamaker. He played the clarinet in the Police Reserves Band of New York City. For a special concert at Fort Hamilton the bandsmen were ordered to wear what decorations they possessed; Brigadier General Gough's ribbons of rank awed his companions; he was the fêted hero of the musicians, who had hitherto known nothing of his history. Reserved, unwilling to rely on his military connections...
...have aqueline, bony faces, high foreheads, strong jaws. Musically, the three are scattered. The two Jews write so that people sing their songs. Cadman, although by no means profound, writes for listeners. The Gershwins and Berlin are in the market places, night clubs; he in the parlor and concert hall. Berlin is admittedly no musician. But Gershwin is. And both are nimble tumblejacks with chords. Cadman, people find, who have followed his 25 years of music from organ compositions to Indian songs and finally operas, is rigid in his style. They ask: Can he adapt himself to popular sound-pictures...