Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decade or two some honest historian should set himself to telling the story of the development of music in the U. S., no name will figure more prominently than that of Walter Damrosch. Today's sophisticates will differ perhaps. They will remember the Strauss of Mengelberg, the Debussy of Koussevitsky, the Bach of Stokowski, the Wagner of Toscanini; and in the fervor of appreciation of individual performances they will have forgotten the millions whose musical sense has been awakened by Damrosch. They will have forgotten that it was Damrosch who first introduced to the U. S. such composers...
Walter Damrosch, now 66, continues to make music history. Again pioneer, he begins this week a series of radio concerts for school children. In preparation some 100,000 classrooms have had radios installed and on Friday morning children all over the U. S. will listen for the first time to a new National Symphony Orchestra of 60 players (many of them members of the old New York Symphony) and hear Damrosch lecture on the great composers, their music and the instruments that make...
...illustrate the talks with pictures of the composers and the instruments in the orchestra. Soon, if this first radio instruction proves successful, Big Teacher Damrosch will have 12,000,000 pupils. In a decade or two the honest historian should be able to point to a nationwide appreciation of music commensurate with the country's resources. The Damrosch programs...
Grades 3 and 4, Fridays, 11 a.m. Oct. 26, My Musical Family (the orchestra); Nov. 9, The Magic Door (the overture); Nov. 23, Fairies in Music; Dec. 14, Nature in Music; Jan. 4, Animals in Music; Jan. 18, Violin and Violoncello; Feb. 1, Flute and Clarinet; March 1, Oboe, English Horn and Bassoon; March 15, Horn and Trumpet; April 5, Trombone and Tuba; April 19, Percussion Instruments; May 3, Dances...
...After relieving guard, the marshals of the day bore the invitation of the selectmen to the corps, to partake of a collation provided in Concert Hall, and conducted them thither--the Cadets wearing their side-arms only, and marching to the music of their full band...