Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bang! Bang! BANG! The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was striking pon- derously with that heavy instrument, last week, the door of the Canadian House of Commons. Thus summoned, the Right Honorable Members followed Black Rod to the Red Chamber of the Canadian Senate. Soon His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, pronounced the Speech from the Throne, opening Parliament...
...merit of Protestant churches is their individualism; balancing this merit and springing from it, is the lack of central power, an effective and coherent administrative instrument. The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, in a sense, supplies this want. Last week, while its representatives were meeting in Cleveland, a measure sponsored by the Federal Council and the Interna-tiona] Council of Religious Education came before the New York State Legislature at Albany. This was a bill of incorporation for the Religious Education Foundation, an organization
...competition is open to all members in the University, and is divided into three departments. They are vocal, specialty act, and instrumental. The vocal work consists of group singing; the specialty acts are usually given by magicians, ventriloquists, and musical artists; and the instrumental department is open to players of any type of instrument...
...Whiting, who will play the pianoforte, will show the development of music written for that instrument by Bach in the Seventeenth Century through Brahms and Debussy, ending up with three selections from Chopin...
...guitar has never been an exalted instrument, has never made great history in music. Its living has been a meagre one, eked out on the vaudeville stage, thwanging accompaniments to this ditty and that. Last week in Manhattan, for the first time in memory, it braved a formal recital. There was nothing extraordinary about the recital guitar. It had just six strings. Andres Segovia, the Spaniard who brought it to the U. S., had just the allotted ten fingers but he made big music. Long black hair, a sack coat, flowing black tie and shell bound spectacles-he was like...