Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...player and better singer by her showmanship in handling the crowd. Word has sneaked around that Jeff Fuller '38 has opened his own hot shop in New York City. Come, gentlemen, a little reciprocal trade between Harvard, what? Fuller knows his stuff about records, and from what I can hear about the trips he has been making he has a lot of good rare stock on hand . . . Helen O'Connell, Jimmy Dorsey's singer, goes to RKO in Hollywood at the end of the year...
Looking around anxiously, Vag spied his brother at the hot dog stand, and hurried over in time to hear him say, "Gimme a dog with all the trimmins, mister." Vag didn't remember Billy's ever cating a wienie before, but after all, if he wanted to go and get sick right in public, that was his own affair. Vag propelled the kid along through the crowd toward the sideshows. The nearest one was the fat lady...
...type of concerts which we shall hear is determined by the taste of the audiences and of the musicians themselves. Public attitude may vary from open-mouthed admiration of technical flash and display which considers music a medium for vocal and instrumental acrobatics, to the most discriminating intellectual interest in the music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection...
...evening in 1937 Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music presented to the public two one-act operas. What the critics came to hear was Le Pauvre Matelot, by one of the most famous of French modernist composers, Darius Milhaud. But what held them in their seats and sent them home happy was the light, tripping music and witty text of a little musical farce called Amelia Goes to the Ball, by an unknown graduate of the Institute, a youngster of 25 named Gian-Carlo Menotti. Next year Amelia made the Metropolitan, was so successful that it became a permanent...
...these days of financial recession it is unusual to hear of anyone passing up government money, yet for give years for five years the University with true Republican disdain has held aloof from generous federal offers. Although the National Youth Administration has repeatedly expressed a willingness to contribute a hundred and thirty-five dollars to each of the two hundred and forty college students whom Harvard's officials declared to be both in good standing and in need of the funds in order to remain in college, a wary University Hall has refused to accept the grant...