Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland and San Francisco. But he wanted to compose, not teach. For a time he was subsidized by Cellist Gerald Warburg (son of Banker Felix) and by a wealthy San Francisco family. He retired with his wife and cats to the Oregon seaside in 1941. There, while showing his lute-playing composer daughter how Bach used 48 themes in his Well-Tempered Clavier, he got the theme for the finale of his recent Suite Symphonique. "Suzanne and I were sitting on the little stone steps in the garden. I wrote - just like that -two pages of fugue motifs. The last...
...drama department at Catholic University in Washington,D.C. is the best collegiate play factory since George Pierce Baker's late, great 47 Workshop at Harvard. It also has a broader backstairs to Broadway. In the last nine years, seven C.U.-produced plays (including Lute Song and Sing Out, Sweet Land) have opened in New York. Last week C.U. added a stairway to Hollywood...
...jumbo-size, four-string lute of surprising range and power. The climax of the company's program was a p'i-p'a solo, The Downfall of Chu, describing in great scalding floods of sound the gathering of armies, a wild battle, the grief and suicide. P'i-p'a Soloist Sung Yue-tuh took five curtain calls...
...other German air scientists are now living in a former National Youth Administration camp near Wright Field at Dayton, brain center of U.S. Army air power. Some of their names were still secret, but among them are men like 1) thin, nervous Dr. Alexander Lippisch, butterfly collector, landscape painter, lute player, and designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane, 2) blond, ruddy Dr. Hans Heinrich, inventor of the ribbon parachute, 3) Russian-born Dr. Eugen Ryschkewitsch, world authority on heat-resisting ceramics. Other new workers at Wright Field: German aerodynamicists, wind-tunnel men, instrument men and experts...
...Miller and declined to try them out for Arthur Hopkins. It has seen its homemade "musical biography" of George M. Cohan lead to a smash movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy. It has seen two other homemade musicals, Count Me In and Sing Out, Sweet Land!, produced on Broadway. Last month Lute Song, which Catholic University tried out last season, also opened on Broadway. Last week C.U.'s stage version of The Song of Bernadette started Broadway rehearsals...