Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newman can outwrite the cleverest of the sophisticates. His literary manner is a nimble and adaptable instrument, bubble-light, steel-keen. His taste is of the highest degree of nicety, his appreciations broadly tolerant He is courageously frank, never self-consciously clever. Above all, he has what is usually lacking among our native critics in Music as in the other Arts?a profound background of intelligent scholarship...
...order to complete the eighteenth century atmosphere of the concert, Mr. Whiting will give several selections on the harpsichord. The harpsichord is the key board instrument which preceded the pianoforte, and is the instrument for which most of the eighteenth century music which is now played on the pianoforte, was composed. Played on the harpsichord, the audience will hear the exact sound of the music as it was written at that time...
...election, Mr. Coolidge said: . . ."The work of a Divine Providence, of which I am but one instrument...
...concert Mr. Whiting will play the harpsichord, the key board instrument which preceded the pianoforte, so that the audience may hear the exact sound of the music as it was written by the composers in the latter part of the eighteenth century. As the harpsichord is rarely used today, Mr. Whiting's performance will be a novelty full of unique and beautiful effects, a knowledge of which is essential to a proper understanding of the old music...
Just as a surgeon will whip out his scalpel to whittle away proud flesh, so the American Medical Association has whetted the policy of Hygeia, its monthly instrument for the interpretation of modern medicine to the lay public, and begun whittling at an unhealthy protuberance in the publishing field, namely, Physical Culture, a monthly magazine published by one Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, June 4, 1923; July 14, Sept. 22). The November issue of Hygeia carried "the first of a series of articles . . . discussing the manner in which the hope of relief from suffering and disease is exploited by the promoters...