Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, he set out to discover America. For a year he edited scholarly tracts for the New York Academy of Sciences, then went west to review books for the San Francisco Argonaut, a weekly magazine of opinion. By 1952, he was a reporter and columnist for the Santa Rosa Press...
Biggs' program constituted a virtual historical survey of organ styles, going from the late 16th-century Byrd through Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Bach, Handel, Soler, Schumann and Franck to Jehan Alain, who was tragically killed in his youth during World War II.
According to legend, King Charles IX of France was brought to his deathbed by his passion for sounding lung-lacerating halloos on the hunting horn. True or not, the fine art of horn blowing was for generations a popular musical diversion of Europe's landed aristocracy and an accepted...
Waltzes & Polkas. The original horn fanfares were used to signal the different stages of the hunt to riders in the field, e.g., stag at bay, hounds hunt a game unknown, withdrawal from the field. Under Louis XV horn players became more ceremonious, began to specialize in elaborate fanfares signaling such...
Died. Francis Albert ("Bee") Behymer, 86, veteran (since 1888) reporter and feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch whose "cornfield journalism" has been a Midwest institution for 68 years; in Alton, Ill. A little (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) wiry man with unruly grey hair, "Mr. Bee" went...