Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Whiting will be the pianoforte soloist at the second Whiting concert, to be given at Paine Hall, Wednesday evening, December 12. On his program are a number of characteristic pieces for that instrument. Among them are the Schumann Phantiasie, one of the most important works of the romantic school; Debussy's "Submerged Cathedral" which is a striking illustration of descriptive music, impressive and poetical; and several Chopin numbers, examples of the most idiomatic treatment of the modern key-board instrument. Ravel's "Vaalses nobles at sentimentales" show the modern method of tone-color, and Mr. Whitings's own transcription...
...Bolton, speaking with a microphone in his hand, he said: "John Bright's victory was a Lancashire victory." Then, in aside: "What about Cobden ? Was he a Lancashire man ?" The crowd, of course, heard him distinctly and hooted with mirth; whereupon Mr. George commented: "This is a mischevious instrument. I wondered if you heard it." He remarked that protection was useless, that the U. S. could not keep out British goods, that they would have to put a roof over the country in order to do so, and, even then, British goods would come down the chimney. In another...
Meanwhile a photographic-telescopic excursion is to be made into the Southern Hemisphere, with an instrument 36 feet long, the largest ever to cross the Equator. It will be accompanied by observers chosen from the astronomers of Yale University. They are concerned chiefly with two problems: the determination of the stars and the directions of motions across the sky. The importance of this trip is due to the fact that one-third of the stars cannot be observed from north of the Equator, and many problems require observation from all parts of the sky for solution...
...instrument 36 feet long...
Three resolutions were passed by the conference: 1, that the fifty prisoners which were confined during the war for political reasons should be released; 2, that the United States should support the League of Nations because it is an instrument of peace and one which can be adapted to the constitution; 3, that this second resolution should be sent to the President and Congress of the United States...