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...Sodality is proudest of the memory of one Pierian but for whom its 135 year tradition would not exist. He was an individualist named Henry Gassett of the class of 1834, and he played the flute. When, in 1832, complaints about the Sodality's night music led to an official request for its disbandment, Henry Gassett refused to resign. He held meetings with himself in the chair, paid himself dues regularly, played his flute in solitude. Finally he persuaded another flautist to join in duets. Gradually they elected other members. The Sodality played...
...manner peculiar to Brahms, and all its beauty and emotional intensity was seen in a few scattered passages of the performance, such as the solos by Miss Marjorie Rice and Paul Tibbetts. But in general the effect was tiring. The orchestra's horn section, at times the flute section, the apparent weakness of the vocalists when the better than average soprano section was silent, were all too prominent. Besides, the endlessly changing stream of conductors, even during the Requiem, was overdone. I for one, came to see a concert. Let's keep three ring circuses out of Sanders Theatre...
Fellow Creature. In Petrusberg, South Africa, churchgoers voted not to get rid of a friend-a cobra who lived in the ceiling, always came out to listen when the organist played the organ's flute stops, fled back to its hole when the preaching started...
...last week's birthday concert, six surviving leaguers had written special compositions. They were performed by such topflight artists as Soprano Marjorie Lawrence and the Budapest Quartet. The small audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg...
...family to Kansas City, and the Saturday nights ended. But within three years they were going strong again. This time the nucleus was a group of Kansas City Symphony players. Musicians began arranging folk tunes and composing original pieces for Old Tom, young T. P. (who now played the flute) and their fellow musicians...