Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sanders Theatre to spend a pleasant evening with an exclusive circle, and incidentally to gather more than a little information about poetry one year, art another, music a third. The climax of this year's series, which has been devoted to music, comes this evening in a lecture on Gilbert and Sullivan, with the attractive sub-title "Illustrated by a Chorus of Harvard and Radcliffe Students...
...John Gilbert Winant, onetime (1925-26) Governor of New Hampshire, bought for his private collection the famed Edgehill portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted by Gilbert Stuart. He bought it from Francis Burton Harrison, great-great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippine Islands, now resident of Scotland. Never until now has this portrait, by many , regarded as the finest ever made by famed Gilbert Stuart, valued at $100,000, belonged to a person in no way related to famed Thomas Jefferson...
Edsel Ford last week purchased Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Major-General Henry Dearborn from the Enrich Galleries in Manhattan. He had the picture hung in the office of the Ford Motor Co., at Dearborn, Mich, where he works...
Beniamino Gigli (tenor) was last week as fidgety as the man who wore the first collapsible top hat. He was trying out a new chauffeur. It was hard to change after being accustomed, for seven years, to the way Gilbert Fabbri shifted gears and turned corners. But Chauffeur Fabbri had fallen dead within the entrance of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, just before going to fetch Tenor Gigli's two children from school. And Tenor Gigli had been unable to continue rehearsal that afternoon...
...Davison '06, Associate Professor of Music, on March 12, 14, 19, and 21. The first two lectures will be on the subject of "The Elizabethan and Victorian Eras in Choral Music", the third on "Part-Songs and Anthems of Victorian Composers" and the last on "Choral Writing in the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas." The lectures will be given at 8 o'clock, in Sanders Theatre. They will be illustrated by a chorus of Radcliffe and Harvard students...