Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...encourage young U. S. composers, the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y., offered to present a series of programs of manuscript orchestral works by such strivers. Last week, the first of these concerts was given. The seven, the youngest 25, the oldest 35, were composers Tweedy, Weiss, Silver, Copland, Rogers, 'Porter, McKay. There were four compositions of merit. Best was the imaginative, polytonal Cortege Macabre of Composer ('opland...
...floor, looking for an opening to move adjournment. Senator McKellar talked about Muscle Shoals. Senator Heflin denounced The New York Times for editorially attacking the President for backing down on the Warren nomination, saying the President had been right in that. Senator Stanchfield of Oregon, with a pile of manuscript, began to read a speech about "homeowning banks," but he skipped a good bit of it. Cole Blease, the new and bumptious Senator from South Carolina, asked unanimous consent to insert remarks in the record. Mr. Curtis objected, so Mr. Blease began to read his remarks, telling...
...Library is, however, more concerned with the historical value of the manuscript than with its musical merits. As an example of musical notation before the use of the printing press for the purpose and as a specimen of medieval plainsong it will hold an important place in the Widener collections...
...that his discovery was of considerable value, he took it to Dr. A. T. Davison '06 for appraisal. Dr. Davison identified it as part of an antyshon in the Easter mass of the Catholic church, dating from 1550 at the latest. No definite value has been set upon the manuscript, but Dr. Davison admitted that its worth was considerable. Stout plans to return the manuscript to the library at once. It is not yet known what disposition will be made...
Another unusual feature of the collection is a manuscript of the first proof of Lincoln's second inaugural address. It is interlined and edited, partly by the President in his own handwriting, and partly by John Hay Hon. '02, later Secretary of State, and at that time Lincoln's private secretary...