Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony had a few exciting moments when drum beats drilled out a climax in true African fashion. But for the rest Composer Dawson appeared to have forgotten his primitive background. After his shoe-shining days in Anniston, Ala., he worked ambitiously at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. He studied music in Kansas City, later in Chicago where Conductor Frederick Stock chose him for his first trombonist. He returned to Tuskegee in 1930, to head the music department, direct the choir...
...have listened to the prattle of the economists that recovery movements manifest first in the lighter consumer industries and then in the heavier industries. If the present hint given in the market may be relied on, the world is wagging on in much the same old orthodox economic fashion despite new deal experimentation with recovery serums and social antitoxins...
...longtime fashion was to label most of Sibelius' music gloomy and mystical, a dark artistic reflection of Finland with its stark pine trees and the mists rising over its many black lakes. Sibelius' songs and piano music are relatively unimportant. In his first two symphonies his speech was chiefly of Finland but thereafter he seemed more determined to make absolute music which would speak for itself...
...three years ago it was the fashion to call Charles Dana Gibson the Peter Arno of the 1900's. Few dare hazard a guess of what Artist Arno will be capable...
...club will be represented by a team in the Metropolitan Pistol League which includes teams of Police, National Guards, and Civilians. These matches will all be shot off in "shoulder-to-shoulder" fashion. In the intercollegiate matches, however, each team will do its shooting at home and the results will be telegraphed simultaneously to each other by both teams...