Word: debute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Howard Makes Debut on Crimson Mound...
...public performance in the Engineering Society Auditorium in Manhattan. Few composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers have achieved mature fame but were "child prodigies" to start with. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed talent at 4, genius (in public) at 6, which was Josef Hofmann's age at his piano debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt...
Here is the drama of life in a nut, shell for those who are interested in such things. Picture the distress of the young lady who, as she makes her first graceful debut down the sliding board, fails to catch the public fancy, and is compelled to sit ignored and unmolested while the balls strike right and left around help. Picture also the situation of her who attracts the admiration of a star pitcher, and must spend her days and nights in sliding down and climbing up again in answer to his call...
...States during the season 1921-22 was perhaps the outstanding musical event of the year. The Philadelphia Orchestra first presented him as a soloist and conductor in his "Pagine di Guerra." With the Minneapolis, Detroit, and Cincinnati Orchestras he conducted his "Rhapsody Italia" and also appeared as pianist. His debut recital in New York aroused such interest that two others were hastily arranged, making three recitals within one month...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been chosen as a tentative opponent for the University's intercollegiate boxing debut in a match to be held March 26 in Hemenway gymnasium. Although boxing as yet is not recognized as an organized sport in the University, the activity of the athletic authorities in attempting to secure this match points to the future organization of the fistic art as a minor sport. If boxing does become a minor sport it is expected that the change will be effected on a basis similar to that used at Yale...