Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tones within the octave in subdivisions of 16ths; a French horn, made in Manhattan, that plays 16ths; an "octavina" that plays eighths; a guitar that plays quarters; and an ordinary cello and violin on which were played quarters and eighths. Last week the League of Composers gave a concert in Manhattan, presented among other things, Composer Carrillo's "Sonata Quasi Fantasia," with Composer Carillo as conductor. Critics, interested, found little beauty in the Sonata, saw, however, definite possibilities in Composer Carrillo's system, commended it as an experiment...
Some 100,000 in Y. M. C. A. courses; 130,000 in workers' classes under other nonacademic auspices; an incalculable number benefiting by government agencies (especially in agriculture), by museum and concert courses, by Chautauquas, lyceums and libraries;† an incalculable number indeterminately benefiting from visual education (cinema) and journalistic (newspapers and magazines intelligently read...
Died. Franz Kneisel, 61, famed Roumanian violinist and composer, from 1885 until 1903 concert master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, until 1917 director of the Kneisel Quartet, of which the other three original members were Roth, Svecenski and Giese, since 1905 a professor at the Institute of Musical Art, Manhattan; at Manhattan after undergoing an operation for perforating ulcer of the intestines...
...Governor's reception room; then she went to luncheon with Mrs. Alice C. Henniger, local music teacher (who discovered her voice). At five o'clock she was guest of honor at a high green tea of the Henniger School of Music; next day she gave a concert at the Little Rock High School (which she used to attend when she could steal a morning from the Pastor's housework) ; she shook hands with everybody at a reception given in her honor at the finest hotel in Little Rock. Governor Terral said...
...Division of Music announces, through the kindness of Mr. E. M. Pickman '08, a concert to be given on the evening of Wednesday, April 7, at 8.15 o'clock by the Burgin String Quartet The concert will be given in Paine Hall of the Music Building and will be open to the public free of charge. Seats will be reserved for members of the University until 8 o'clock...