Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cupboard. At the back of this bare stage, there stood a huge screen, black-bordered; down by the footlights were certain metal boxes, each topped with a keyboard of sliding buttons. Before the concert began, a man made a speech. He was Thomas Wilfred, Danish singer, who invented the instrument so curiously composed of the metal boxes, the great screen. He explained his invention, the Clavilux or light-organ, that makes symphonies of colors. Then he played...
...instrument which so unites the rhythms of music with the accents of color, properly perfected, is beyond doubt as permanent an addition to the engines of Art as a violin or a paint brush. Great advances have been made in the Clavilux since its first demonstration in Manhattan three years ago; great advances must be made before it will be pliant to the uses of genius...
...established the Free State within the coasts of Erin. Thereupon was injected into the League the whole question of the international status of the British Dominions. Britain contended that the Treaty is a domestic concern between two component nations of the British Commonwealth. Ireland contended that it was an instrument between two separate nations and entitled to registration under Article XVIII of the Covenant...
...night, men played the harp-princes, captains, jongleurs, beggarmen. Their fingers wandered the strings, their heads bent to their music. Last week, the harp was played in Chicago. Enrico Tramonti, harpist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was permitted by Conductor Frederick Stock to play a solo on his instrument. Widor's Chorale et Variations he played. It is a good piece of music, well adapted to harp and orchestra. Chicagoans listened with interest to this novelty. Sweet were the strains they heard, filled with all the dreaming melancholy, the tender elegance, of another day. Yet they were glad when...
...from like anguish is none the less to be deplored. Instructional vivisection is at best but a clumsy means of imparting surgical knowledge. The experiment can be followed by only a limited number of students; it must inevitably be somewhat hurried. Long have medical men sought for some instrument of instruction between a live guinea-pig and a lifeless diagram. Last week, in Paris, the cinema was turned to this purpose. Professor Lapique of the Paris Medical School presented a film featuring the vivisection of a dog. Medical students looked on, took notes, asked questions. Announced in the press next...