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Besides the diet of beer and pretzels at the Pops, there has been plenty of substantial musical fare available, since the end of the regular season. Last week the Lincoln Symphony concert on Thursday evening was unexpectedly good, especially n the performance of the Mozart concerto for flute and harp. Probably the best concert of the week, however, was the Friday night Open House at the Longy School. The program was made up entirely of early eighteenth century chamber music which is at its best in the atmosphere of intimacy and informality which these recitals always have. The concert...

Author: By S. C. Holvick, | Title: The Music Box | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

...centre foreground sits Harpo staring, sadly strumming on his harp. His hair is golden fuzz, interwoven with fuchsia flowers and gay green leaves. He is not surprised by the company of three attentive giraffes-their backs on fire. In the distance are eight more giraffes, also burning, trying to get away from their own heat by running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dali's Harpo | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Ballard and harp, custodians of the most cockeyed California cult of all-The Mighty I AM Presence- arrived in Manhattan on a tour of the U. S. which they are making separately (he by car, she by plane, harp "by courtesy of American Express"). Most articulate of the cult's spokesmen: one Saint Germain. Example: "He raised George Washington up to be the focal point around whom the American patriots could rally. And he appeared at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in a moment of great hesitation and doubt and made an impassioned plea for the signing of the Declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...thousand years hence, when historians gravely chronicle the 20th Century U. S. theatre, diving now & then into their glossaries for light on "strip-tease" or "meat show," they may wonder why, for a time, the theatre harped on human frailties- Follies, Vanities, Scandals-and then suddenly ceased to harp. They may perhaps write learned, ingenious essays describing the rise and fall of the morality play on Broadway, never dreaming that what they chronicled was the rise and fall of the musical show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Boys From Columbia | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Pepper Martin's Mudcats (Mon. 11:30 p. m., MBS). St. Louis Cardinals' swing band led by Outfielder Martin (guitar and mouth harp). Other members: Pitchers Lon Warneke (guitar), Bill McGee (violin), Lefty Weiland (jug), Outfielder Frenchy Bordagaray (washboard, auto horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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