Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School students were slightly injured yesterday noon in fire which destroyed the Brattle Inn. Annex at number 6 Storey street. H. J. Kaltenbach 1L suffered burns abut the face and upper body, and was removed to Stillman Infirmary. D. B. Wallace 1L. and J. B. Northrop 1L suffered minor burns and cuts, but were able to return home after first aid treatment by Dr. Aldrich...
Heard separately, either of the symphonic poems played yesterday would please, perhaps thrill. En masse, as they were heard, they seemed a little too much. The ever beautiful D minor symphony began the program. It is a work of marvellous vitality, rich in harmonic structure and solidly if not exotically orchestrated. It is a piece in which great pains must be taken to avoid sentimentality; these Mr. Monteux took, at the expense, perhaps, of some of the beauty of the second movement. Four years ago, when the symphony was last heard in Boston, the tempo of this second movement...
...compensate, Mme, Samaroff played the Schumann A minor concerto. This concerto has been played often at Boston symphony concerts, and deservedly; every hearing renews the impression that it is one of the most beautiful things in piano literature. Two years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch played it wonderfully; MM, Samaroff equalled his performance yesterday. The first movement as she gave it was fine as silk thread, warm, clear, lustrous; the remarkably fine execution of that very difficult syncopation in the last movement would alone have justified Mme, Samaroff's claim to the first rank of, musicianship. She is a superb artist...
When our country reaches the state of the milk bottle it will be confronted by a serious problem; but this same situation has already arisen in Asia Minor; and Lord Curzon, on behalf of England--and, supposedly, the rest of Europe,-- has advised that the millions Greeks, Armenians and the other Christian minorities in the country beyond the Aegean, be transported from the path of the Turk. He fears that, if they should remain, massacres on a more terrible scale might occur, and that it is better to leave Kemal and Ishmet and their followers room for expansion...
...Schumann, Concerto in A minor for Pianoforte and Orchestra...