Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many musicologists went to hear Ponte's demonstration of late Baroque performance methods. These techniques differ from those in current practice principally in matters of rhythm. For example, certain combinations of notes which have equal time values in the score are not played equally. Determining the precise relationship of these "notes inegales" involved a great deal of research into the musical conventions of the Eighteenth Century. This investigation was more than musical pendantry. It enables us to hear the Clavierubung the way Bach wanted us to hear it. The question of which version is better must be left...
...been picked up crossing a bridge on the Yugoslav border, was all that the authorities knew or could guess about Janos. A fellow refugee, a draftsman from Budapest, had invented the name for him. A faint look of pleasure in Janos' eyes seemed to indicate that he could hear, and that he liked the name. The mystery of his real identity and origin remained...
...Fulton. The great Sheen voice was first heard 57 years ago in the rooms above Newton Sheen's hardware store in El Paso, Ill. (pop. 1,800). It was quite a voice, even then. "Sakes alive, you could hear him crying three blocks away," recalls an uncle. "And when we were out riding in the buggy, Grandfather Fulton used to say, 'If you don't stop that crying I'm going to dump you out in the tumble-weeds...
More than 350 Dudley commuters along with 35 faculty guests took over Eliot House dining hall last night to hear their first student talk from President Conant...
Candidates for the 1952 Crimson varsity football team, over 100 strong, assembled at the Varsity Club last night to hear Coach Lloyd Jordan explain adjustments to be made for the coming season, in view of the Ivy Group decision to abandon spring practice...