Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also not to be missed are the lectures by four visiting professors: President Henri Guy of the University of Grenoble, Professor H. W. Garrod of Oxford, Professor Wolfgang Liepe of the University of Kiel, and Professor Marcel Aubert of the Ecole des Chartes, Paris. The special lectures follow...
...eighth lecture in the series being given by Henri Guy, President of the University of Grenoble, France, will be given this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Emerson D. The title of this lecture, which is given in French, "Euripide et Racine: Phedre." The entire series has the title, "La Vie et les Oeuvres de Jean Racine...
...Fine Arts. Now assisting in its support will be a new fund-$2,000,000 contributed by the general public, $2,000,000 and more (reckoning real estate and works of art) by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft. Again Fritz Reiner is conductor. The Minneapolis Symphony, under Conductor Henri Verbrugghen, favored first this year the twin-citizens of St. Paul, played its second concert at home. Again the orchestra will take a midwinter tour as far as Havana, and a spring tour, adding to its present total of 2,191 concerts. In Manhattan, a new orchestra called the Manhattan...
...texture, is composed in a lively, anecdotal manner. Georges Dufrenoy. French conservative, won third prize ($500) for a richly colored, rather thickly painted still life of brocade, a vase, a fiddle. Paris painters, recalling Carnegie's previous recognition of more salient French painters (first prize, 1927, to Henri Matisse; first prize, 1928, to André Derain) were considerably puzzled by this award. Edward Bruce painted an Italian pear tree, leafless, in full blossom. This canvas won first honorable mention and $300. Meticulously Painter Bruce had picked out each bud against a leaden sky, producing a pleasant, symmetrically composed picture...
...Josten of Smith is a composer and conductor of recognised prowess. His bent is toward the primitive and naturalistic, rather than the mechanistic, and the subject of his selection is one in which he can revel. The suggestion of the work came from the series of jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms, nor is it entirely subjective; it offers some translation of the former, and simultaneously treats...