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Reputedly unique of its kind, a harmonica Symphony consisting of twelve mouth organs, two flutes and two cellos has been inaugurated by the Instrumental Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harmonica Band Organized | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

...Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately played on half-a-dozen unfamiliar exotic instruments, was as tangy and pungent as a 25-year-old egg. While Musician Sung Yue-tuh drew subtle wheezes from the sheng (4,639-year-old ancestor of the harmonica), and Wang Wen-piao sawed at his erh-hu (two-string fiddle), the audience took it politely. But when Professor Wei Chung-loh of China's Ta Tung National Research Institute swung out on his p'i p'a (traditional guitar of the ancient Chinese princes), they cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chinese Music | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Take It With You"--which is at the University, incidentally--Hollywood has taken up the challenge of the stage. Mr. Capra has used every trick in the bag. Dynamite, dictaphones, elevators and a little fifteen cent harmonica are among the mechanics which make this an outstanding picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Overture to "Orpheus in Hades" Offenbach *Minuet (for Strings) Bolzoni *Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Wheeler Beckett, Guest Conductor *Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner Symphony No. 1, in C minor Beckett Burroughs Newsboys Harmonica Band "Night Froth," Rhapsody Peggy Stuart Fantasia, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge "Up the Street," March Morse *Selections, checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/26/1938 | See Source »

...comedians. Harlow played the trumpet and Wright the piano, while the other two sang and trucked during the rendition of the song, inserting at one point "I could sing Boula, Boula, even sing ...." Snell's contribution was featured by a rendition of Beethoven's "Minnet in G" on the harmonica, and Funk Sang the prologue to "Pagliacci...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRADLESS TAKES FIRST IN '41 AMATEUR SHOW, APES WINDSOR, COWARD | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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