Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four hundred followers of art and Mickey Mouse yesterday afternoon crowded the confines of the auditorium in Fogg Museum to hear Robin D. Feild '30, assistant professor of Fine Arts, give the first of four lectures on the "Art of Walt Disney," entitled "The Story...
...most superlative music of all time. But few know that, in his early life, he was superbly egotistic. From his great teacher, Haydn, he insisted that he learned nothing. He made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom above the others, and it is also mine." "I look upon them (mankind) only as instruments upon which I play when...
This morning at 10 the Vagabond will at last return to serious business. Having completely emerged from The Depths, he is planning to wander up to the Music building and hear more about a composer who has fascinated him. He has heard that the Music 1 devotees have arrived at that point; he knows (off the record) that, among other things, the last movement of the Second Symphony will be played before the hour is over; and he wants to see if that certain student with the incredible laugh is still spicing the proceedings with his outbursts of merriment...
Like Occidental music, Chinese falls into two camps: classical and popular. Most of what U. S. listeners hear (in Chinatown theatres and restaurants) belongs to the popular type. But last week Manhattanites got a chance to hear samples of China's classical music played by the highest-browed of China's highbrow musicians. The concert was sandwiched in as part of a show given by the Chinese Cultural Theatre Group, a troupe that had reached Manhattan by way of several west coast cities. Their play-acting was not up to Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately...
...looked as if they were having a fight with it. ... I think modern music is funny. It always sounds as if it did not take the composer long to make up. ... I liked the symbells very much as they gave off a very good tinkling sound. You could hear them in spite of all the noise. I had a good view of the Drummer...