Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole morning was devoted to Hindemith's less complicated works, with the composer on the viola. People were impressed by the assurance with which the flabby, sad-eyed man played his Sonata for Viola Alone, his curious indifference to tonal qualities. Later they had a chance to hear Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher (The Organgrinder) which had never been played in the U. S. before. Der Schwanendreher is a concerto for viola and small orchestra, based on traditional German folk tunes. In it Hindemith expanded a song called Among Hills and Valleys into a whole astonishing movement. Bassoon, clarinet...
General John Joseph Pershing, 76. was interviewed under a tree at his home in Lincoln, Neb., on the 20th anniversary of the U. S. entrance into the War. Had he any comment on the occasion? "Hush, gentlemen," whispered the A. E. F.'s Commander-in-Chief. "Hear that redbird sing? That is more important to me right...
...this mid-western city, in 1897, that the Associated Club was first organized by delegates from the several club units in that area. And it is there that this year's representatives will convene to hear such speakers as President James B. Conant '14, and James M. Landis '24, chairman of the Social Securities Exchange Commission and dean elect of the Law School...
...Lacrosse at Harvard belongs to that group of minor sports which you are likely to think of when you hear the words "straitened budget", "program in danger." It's a sport they don't write very much about in the papers and one that very few people pay to see played. But if a sport be judged by the enthusiasm of those taking part, lacrosse rates very high among the minors...
...ingenuity and discrimination. Recently, Sunday evening concerts in the unfortunate Majestic theatre have presented the Beethoven symphonies, and a Composers' Forum Laboratory has been held weekly on Thursdays. This evening at 25 Huntington Avenue, Harry Seaver '33 will discuss some of his works at this Laboratory as well as hear them played. The experiment has interesting possibilities, and merits attention...