Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week appeared, in some 600 newspapers throughout the U. S., a caricatured robot brutally plucking a harp over which hung a weeping muse (presumably Euterpe) and beside which sat a howling hound. The caption was: "The robot as an entertainer-Is the substitution for real music a success?" The advertising "story" appended was the American Federation of Musicians' complaint against substituting mechanically synchronized music for orchestras in theatres...
...Prince Igor in Russian with a Russian cast and ballet. The Pennsylvania Grand Opera gave Boito's Mefistofele in Italian. Most interesting to watch this year will be the Philadelphia Grand Opera, which begins its first season in cooperation with Mrs. Edward Bok's Curtis Institute of Music...
Orchestras last week continued to sound their season's first music...
...Manhattan, Artur Bodansky and the Friends of Music gave intelligent performance to Haydn's Seasons, a mellow, pastoral oratorio unheard in the U. S. for nearly 25 years. The evening before, the Conductorless Symphony (including nine women), introduced its second season...
...Music of wide appeal will be featured in the joint of concert of the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs and the Harvard Instrumental Clubs, when these organizations appear in a concert Friday November 22, In Sanders Theatre at 8.30 o'clock...