Word: duet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward R. Sargent '36 and Franklin P. Whitbeck '35 will play a Banjo Duet, while Edwin G. Davis, Jr. '38, John A. Carter '37, George H. Spencer '38, and George W. Wickersham '35 will comprise the Yard Quartet...
Featuring the Specialties Division, the Instrumental Clubs are sending the Gold Coast Orchestra to play at Vassar on March 2. The performers include the Chicago Quartet, F. Lee H. Wendell '38, Edward L. Barnes '38, Joseph W. Valentine '38, and Ralph Hamill '38; a banjo duet, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35 and E. Rotan Sargent '35; and two magicians, Barnes and Mansfield Branigan...
...their urge to praise, Italian critics picked on a rousing wine song, a melodic love duet, a last-act intermezzo. No one was candid enough to say that Mascagni had his one brief inspiration 45 years ago when he was an obscure, half-nourished piano-teacher. Until then his way had been consistently hard. His father, a baker, disowned him because he refused to be a lawyer. An uncle helped him to get into a musical conservatory. But Mascagni rebelled against the rules, struck out for himself. He toured as conductor of a fourth-rate opera company until he married...
...courtly rival. True love, young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing a silver rose, is sent to ask a rich young heiress to marry the Baron. Most operas end tragically but when Octavian and Sophie have finished their duet it is clear love will triumph...
...guitar solo by John P. Ayer '37, and a banjo duet by Franklin P. Whitbeck '35 are from the instrumental diversion, while Edwin G. Davis '38, will play classical selections on the piano...