Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foundation was not enough for the judge. When he heard that Jefferson Military College was just about destitute, he offered to turn over the income of his oil-spouting lands. It was a handsome gift -somewhere between $5,000,000 and $50 million-but it was tied with tawdry strings. To qualify for it, the school was to pledge itself to exclude "any person of African or Asiatic origin." It must promise to teach "through every medium possible . . . Christianity and the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races." Jewish students would be banned, added an Armstrong spokesman, unless...
...proposition to Conductor-Composer Antonio Modarelli of the 85-piece Charleston Symphony Orchestra: Capito would pay $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. Modarelli agreed. Last week, along with West Virginia Governor Okey Patteson and the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history (2,500), Capito heard the result: a six-section program piece entitled River Saga...
...they lived. One woman who had traveled 36 miles from Gauley Bridge to hear the premiere was pleased as punch with the third section, which described the stretch where the upper branches of the Kanawha join forces, roar over Kanawha Falls. "There's a song I've heard every day of my life on the river," said she. "You can hear it right in the music...
...Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. plant at South Charleston, who had played host to Modarelli when he was trying to get "a feel" for the industrial section of Saga, beamed at the sound effects of whirring machines and the tripping of interrupter switches. "Precisely as they are heard in the plant," said...
...main differences are dynamics and precision. Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, which received the greatest applause, probably showed these differences most clearly. The first movement was played at a tempo as lively as has been heard in a long time. Yet the staccato notes of the entire string section came out as clearly as one instrument. The second movement, a funeral piece in contrast, was played with all the quiet dignity and feeling that could be expected by even the most demanding...