Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economy was the subject in New York where the orchestra's predicament was unpleasantly emphasized by the absence of Critic Lawrence Oilman's authoritative program notes. Economy was the keynote of the Philadelphia concert where Stokowski. almost in a single breath, mourned the passing of the Orchestra's president, Alexander Van Rensselaer, and pleaded for support so that the orchestra might go on. This week at a banquet promoted by William Curtis Bok, the Philadelphia Orchestra's unsold season tickets were auctioned in an attempt to save the players a pay-cut of 19%. With...
...more in the years when she was making her career and Conductor Leopold Stokowski. to whom she was married for twelve years, was making his. Eight years ago Mine Samaroff fell over a trunk, tore a ligament in her right arm, had to five up concert work. She became critic of the New York Evening Post only to be criticized for constantly presenting the musician's point of view. She took to teaching and her most talented pupils had trouble finding audiences. Cornelius Bliss indirectly gave her the idea for a layman's school. He wanted...
...gave him an uproariously warm welcome. Donning an overseas cap to show his membership in the organization, he stepped up amid a cyclone of cheers to the same Stadium rostrum where 15 months prior he had accepted the Presidential nomination. His easy manner, his smiling charm softened his sternest critic in an audience of 30,000. He drew loud laughter when he interjected: "My, you're a young looking bunch.'' National credit based on national unity was the theme of his speech. In defense of his pension cuts he declared...
According to an announcement by the editors of the Harvard Critic there is still opportunity for articles written by undergraduates to be published in the first issue of the Critic which will appear in the early part of November. The last date for articles to be submitted is Sunday, October 15. On the same date an essay contest for Freshmen will be terminated, and the author of the winning essay will probably be made a member of the board of Editors of the Critic...
...finished it he was reconciled to the fate of "Munsey's" and willing to confess that the moral which once accompanied every lurid fable had slipped his memory. So, conscious of the error of his ways, he abandons his golden dream, his plans for the future of the Harvard Critic, and return to "Fanny Hill," the only safe resort of those in search of literary excitement...