Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Political ears thought they heard President Franklin Roosevelt's first third-term announcement when he said at Mount Vernon, in a speech commemorating President George Washington's first notification of election: "That Washington would have refused public service if the call had been a normal one has always been my belief. But the summons to the Presidency had come to him in a time of real crisis and deep emergency. The dangers that beset the young nation were as real as though the very independence Washington had won for it had been threatened once more by foreign foes...
...Held a state funeral for Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois; heard that, to fill the vacancy, Governor Henry Horner had appointed James Michael Slattery, 60, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, pink, parbald product of the Chicago Democratic machine, campaign manager for Governor Horner and Senator Scott Lucas. Son of a coal-yard foreman, Jimmy Slattery early got on the city pay roll, became secretary of the late Senator Lewis' new law college (Webster), begat eleven children, never won an election for himself...
Boston gets a real break with Alec Templeton coming to Symphony Hall tonight to play one of his justly famous piano concerts. Templeton, born an Englishman and blind from birth, is a true artist both in the field of classics and that of musical satire. If you have ever heard him play Chopin and then go on to imitate "an afternoon in a conservatory" with sundry whiskey basses, off-key Wagnerian sopranos, and amazing musical parodies from the piano, you will recognize what unusual talent the man possesses...
...what has given Templeton much of his musical sense of humor. Listen to the album of records which Gramaphone Shop of New York has done (Brigg's and McKenna's have them) and not only is there some excellent piano, but some of the wildest satire you've ever heard. The man deserves great credit, not only for having overcome a handicap, but for being an accomplished piano player (his latest trick being to play concertos after having heard them once), and for having carried on with a musical tongue in the check where Gilbert and Sullivan left...
...works. Of the four numbers on the program only two, the First Piano Sonata (1936) and the Violin and Piano Sonata in E (1935), are know hereabouts. The Violin and Piano Sonata (1939) has just been completed, and the Sonata for Piano Four Hands (1938) has not been heard here. The first Piano Sonata, inspired by Hoelderlin's poem, Der Main, is familiar to Cambridge audiences. Its direct, simple beauty has earned several performances here. The Violin and Piano Sonata in E has not been heard so frequently, and those who are acquainted with the earlier works in this form...