Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston's North and South Railroad Stations, in Manhattan's Grand Central Station, commuters and loafers had paused to listen to Federal band music. Pittsburgh had a 22-piece gypsy orchestra, Chicago a Hungarian ensemble, San Antonio and Tucson tipica orchestras. Dr. John J. Becker had his Horn Concerto played in Boston, Bendetson Netzorg his The Bhalahu in Detroit. WPA musicians will take part this spring in a series of Manhattan concerts showing the history of U. S. music, in a Virginia State Music Festival, in a New Jersey Beethoven Cycle, in a May festival in St. Paul...
...Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago played three works competently before the intermission. Then last Sunday's Orchestra Hall audience craned their necks, watched a young man with horn-rimmed spectacles being led to a piano on the stage. The young man felt the keyboard, struck a note lightly, tentatively. Conductor Ebba Sundstrom tap-tapped with her baton. Into Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto swung the orchestra, followed by the young man who, despite his unorthodox way of holding his hands flat, his arms stiff, played fleetly with sure, supple tone...
...school music in Adams, Mass. When she was able to get a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, Inez Gorman went there as a matter of course. When she went to St. Louis to sing minor roles with the Municipal Opera, she met James Stagliano, first horn player in the St. Louis Symphony. Year ago she became his wife...
...first Prize Novel contest was held in 1922-23, when "The Able McLaughlins" by Margaret Wilson was adjudged the winner. This novel was later awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Last years' winner was "Honey in the Horn" by H. L. Davis...
Divorced. Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold...