Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization was founded in England in 1911 by Cecil Sharp, a collector of folk songs and music of old folk dances, who started the group just before the dances died out in the country. Since then the interest in the Society has spread to the United States and organizations have been established as branches of the English one in many of the larger American cities. There are such groups in Boston, New York City, Cleveland, and Rochester...
...connection with the appearance of the Society in Boston, the Treasure Room in Widener is displaying manuscripts of early English music. One composition, a publication of 1593, is called "The Seventh Day--A Cantata", based on "Paradise Lost". Some love songs of 1688 bearing the dedication "to her Grace the Duchess of Queensberry", are also being shown. This exhibit will continue throughout the stay of the English Folk Dance Society in Boston...
...Orient. It is at night that he marauds, hiding in crevices in daytime. He confines his activities to man, whose blood he sucks, upon whose body he makes his permanent home. Among the bedbug's relations is the singing cicada, who lives on plants and, sucking, makes merry music. Unrelated is the louse but often cooperate. As the bedbug prefers an uncleanly environment, he is taboo as a subject of polite conversation...
...Stradivarius Quarter of New York City will give their second concert at Harvard. And their first of a series of three to be held in the New Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Division of Music and the Fogg Art Museum...
...there is music in the air before Thursday. This evening the Stradivarius Quartet of New York City will give as the first of their three programs. "Quartet in F major" from Mozart, and Schumann's "Quartet in F Major, Op. 41, No. 2". Four Stradivarius instruments will be used in the concert...