Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harold Bauer, one of the world's foremost pianists, will be the soloist at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's third appearance in Sanders Theatre this season at 8 o'clock tonight. Mr. Bauer, an Englishman born in London, at first studied the violin, but later, on Paderewski's recommendation studied the piano in Paris. He first appeared in the United States in 1900 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Asgrimur Jonsson, foremost painter of Iceland, has been pensioned by the Althing (Icelandic Parliament) to allow him to continue his work unhampered. Six of his paintings hang in the Legislative Assembly Hall. The Government is assisting ten other painters to study in Denmark and other Continental art centers. The Iceland painters are but slightly touched by modernism; their subjects deal largely with the wild snow and ice-scapes of their native land...
...humanitarian work. Dr Nansen received this year the Nobel Peace Prize and he is without doubt one of the foremost figures among the active workers of the league of Nations. He is said to be an excellent speaker and to possess a perfect command of English...
...Italy, however, the loud cry of "politics" is being raised. The present Minister of Education, Giovanni Gentile, a foremost philosopher, has compiled theoretical works on education that have been considered to be of profound value. Practically he finds the problem a hot one. Religion enters in, as well as the fact that more professional students are being trained than the professions can absorb. Then Signor Gentile has surprised everybody by joining the Fascisti movement-which means that he is "assisted" at every turn by Dr. Mussolini, who does not seem to know too much about education. The right...
...concert in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. The concert promises to be one of the finest musical performances in Sanders Theatre in years, for not only has Alexander Koshetz, the conductor, attained remarkable vocal effects for mixed voices, but he also presents Ewssei Beloussoff, Russia's foremost cellist, as the soloist of the evening. President Hibben of Princeton in commenting on the Princeton performance of the chorus said, "Their work is an expression of the highest form of art and our Princeton audience was enthusiastic in its approval and appreciation...