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...concerts of its regular series in Symphony Hall on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. Dr. Koussevitsky is to conduct the first Boston performance of the orchestral suite from Stravinsky's ballet, "Le Baiser de la Fee", which was written in 1928. The ballet bears the subtitle, "Inspired by the Muse of Tchaikovsky", and makes free use of that composer's themes. It seems rather incongruous that the neo-classic Stravinsky and the romantic Tchaikovsky should be thus combined, especially since the former has written: "I always aim at straight forward expression in its simplest form. I have...
21st.--Ope'd my eyes very betimes, but lay long a humming some Oriental tune, yet I know not where I got it; thence, soft sun in my face, to muse on this fine tribute to morning and how rich are its lines...
Thence, back to the Tower and to muse awhile in the full moonlight: Was it not Anatole France who said; Be happy. We learn only as we amuse ourselves? So I with my gramaphone to get wise and doze myself to sleep...
...investigation was John Henry Kirby's Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution. First witness was fat, freckled old John Henry Kirby, Texas oil and lumber man, who quickly revealed that the right-hand man who really knew the inner workings of his organization was one Vance Muse. A big, muscular, loose-jointed Texan with thick brown hair and a scar on his cheek, Mr. Muse swung up to the witness chair. Senator Black told him to sit down...
...think," boomed Vance Muse, "that I should stand in the presence of the Senate of the United States, in which I have implicit faith...