Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...western Pennsylvania son James J., aged eleven, took up the family art of iron-puddling. At 16, he was admitted to the union and soon was a master puddler. Many years later, when he had become Secretary of Labor, when he was reputedly worth a million dollars, Mr. Davis published an autobiography, The Iron Puddler, in which he told of the glamor of his onetime...
Thus "blooded," according to tradition, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, eldest grandson of the King-Emperor, son of Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, is considered henceforth a full-fledged fox hunter, may aspire to the eminence of his father, as Master of the famed Bramham Moor Hunt...
...discovered a young Russian exile in Oregon whose work is unique for its artistry, and musicians are hoping that he will in time become the 20th Century Stradivari, there has been nothing in two centuries to compare in brightness, power, softness of tone with the work of the old master. "Even God could not make a Stradivari without Antonio Stradivari." There has been but one Antonio Stradivari in musical history...
...merchandise in search of bargains. One night last week a greater crowd than ever before crammed its way into this pillared space, now swept of every vestige of merchandise. They had come to hear a concert, attend a reception given by Rodman Wanamaker in honor of Thaddeus Rich, concert master of the Philadelphia Orchestra. From the first grand chord of the organ prelude to the last lingering vibration of Soloist Rich's violin the audience were silent, as 15,000 disembodied spirits straining for the trumpet call of the angels. They heard the famed Wanamaker instruments, Stradivari, Guarnarius, Quadagnini...
...more than mention, are taking place over the weekend. This afternoon in Jordan Hall at 3 o'clock, Mischa Levitzki, a noted though young pianist, will give a recital of Beethoven, Schumann, Chop n and others. Tomorrow at 3.30 in Symphony Hall, Pablo Casals, the greatest living master of the violoncello, will perform a Sonata of Bach in G. major; a Sonata in D major by Locatelli, our eighteenth century composer; Beethoven's great 'cello Sonata in A major and an Adagio and Allegro by Schumann...