Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Singers, mandolinists, drummers,--any one who can sing or play some instrument, band or orchestral, will find an opportunity to compete at one of the try-outs for the four musical organizations of the University, three of which are being held tonight. Hundreds of men are expected to compete for either the Glee Club, Pierian Sodality Orchestra, Instrumental Clubs, or University Band...
...Instrumental Clubs, including the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, Orchestra, and specialties, will hold their fall trials in the Music Building at 7 o'clock on Monday and Tuesday nights. Candidates will be tried individually on any number of instruments, and must be able to play a solo and read at sight. Men playing more than one instrument and those who play the cello are especially needed...
...geophone, an instrument invented by the French during the War to detect sapping operations of the Germans underground, has been developed by U. S. Engineers for rescue work in mines, gauging tunnel borings, etc. It contains diaphragms like a seismograph, which transmit the most delicate vibrations to the observer's ears. Sledge pounding can be detected 3,000 feet through solid rock, and ordinary talking through 50 feet of coal...
Kussevitsky broke into music with the bass viol, making both himself and the instrument famous. He played in the Imperial Opera and became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, his alma mater. Before the War he cruised on the Volga with his orchestra, giving symphony concerts in places unknown to that art. Since the War he has been engaged in Western Europe...
...that his years have not robbed him of his vivacity. Articles in the press laid playful stress upon the circumstance that de Pachmann candidly informed the ship news reporters who interviewed him that he was the world's greatest pianist, that beside him the other virtuosos of the instrument of keys and hammers were sorry fellows. He likewise essayed the unusual thing of giving his critical rating of his fellow artists-Paderewski a good pianist but not a great one; likewise Busoni and Rosenthal; Godowsky a good technician; Rachmaninoff a third rater; Josef Hofmann not a great pianist, although...