Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit...
Last week the Detroit News published the results of an investigation of the programs played by the orchestras of six U. S. cities. They took the average date of composition of all works played during the season, found that Cleveland (1874) was most modern, New York next (1872), then Boston and Chicago, tied (1869), Philadelphia (1865), Detroit...
...fact that it played so little 18th Century music; that the Boston Symphony, under Serge Kousseviyzky, led in 20th Century music, with Chicago next under Frederick Stock, and the New York Symphony next. Chicago has played the greatest proportion of the classics, with Philadelphia next; and Detroit, under Ossip Gabrilowitsch, leads in the 19th Century. The percentages...
...Detroit...
...Detroit a pallid, tense, exhausted attorney for the defense finished his plea with a recountal of the evolution of the Negro. Step by step, he dramatically retraced the Blackman's faltering trail from the reaches of the sombre Zambezi, through the confusing and indiscernible vagaries of his enslavement, through the darknesses of his neo-liberty with its mob-slaughter, lynching and stake-burnings, and finally into the hope and comprehensions of a new day. This graphic recitation was to show that Henry Sweet, Negro accused of murder, was the unconscious victim of ancient racial inheritances, that when he knelt...