Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty years ago there was no greater contrabassist in all Europe than Serge Koussevitzky but he outgrew even that colossal instrument, became a conductor. Not until last year did he gather his admiring Bostonians around him and show them what he used to do with the double-bass. Boston rhapsodized but Manhattan waited to form her own judgment. In Boston King Koussevitzky can do no wrong. Neither could he last week in Manhattan. Of his first double-bass recital there, Critic Lawrence Oilman wrote in part...
...international organization or contribute to it, it remains to be seen what the Senate will do with the Kellogg Peace Pact, the "dead dodo." And with the coming known of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the circumstances surrounding it, perhaps the Kellogg pact to renounce war as an instrument of national policy may be encouraged to live...
Between the player and his instrument there are only ether-waves which are directed to the production of sound by the movement of the musician's hands in the air. Thereminvox, the ether-wave music instrument, and its influence upon musical development are of general interest internationally to the worlds of art and science...
Above San Diego last week two planes collided. Both pilots hastily climbed from their cockpits, felt for their parachutes, jumped. Lieut. W. L. Cornelius was too hasty. His parachute caught on the instrument board and he was dragged to his death with the two machines which crashed, locked together. So died the second of the army's famous "Three Musketeers" (TIME, Sept. 24). At Mines Field Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was for a time the leader of this group of which Lieut. Irving A. Woodring is now the sole survivor...
...Song. Theatre-goers well know that the post-War reconstruction period has not ended though a decade's years have intervened since Nov. 11, 1918. Critics & others, sated with many a propagandrama for or against hostilities, frequently have wished for a pact to outlaw war as an instrument of national amusement policy. But let no critic ban war or dressmaking or boxing or any other subject as a playground if playsmiths can use war, dressmaking or boxing to a worthy end, as in this piece...