Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Huge, the pictures represent The Birth of Music. There are bells, babes, crucifixes, saints, sages, violins, all suavely rendered in a flat, decorative style. The colors of these allegorical figures pale beside certain swaths of silver paint and vividly Hungarian ornamentation. It is difficult to see the figures, to comprehend the designs...
...bells about the size that Mrs, Leslie Carter used to swing from, so long, so long ago, in Mr. Belasco's Heart of Maryland. . . . One adoring saint on the right is holding a violin . . . another is holding a baby that looks rather like another violin. . . . Although he calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled by a maestro who partook of too many cocktails the previous night...
...ingrown, hostile to the U. S. culture enveloping it, which it cannot understand. Mrs. Bok tried the teaching of useful trades, U. S. theories of liberty and government, the English language. She was met with forced interest, with acquiescence veiling suspicion. At length she turned to a universal language-music. She arranged for lessons for her polyglot proteges. In 1915 she established the Settlement Music School Building and endowed it permanently. Results were speedy and plainly visible. Hostility and suspicion vanished from among the families benefited by the school's work. They told their neighbors. Friendliness spread. Then...
...Library of Congress for a composition for piano and wind sextet. Contestants of 33 nationalities had submitted 135 scores. Prizeman Hüttel's work chosen unanimously by five judges (Judges Georges Barrere, Philip Hale, Ernest Henry Schelling, Leopold Stokowski and Chief Carl Engel of the Music Division of the Library of Congress) will be played next October at the Festival of Chamber Music in Washington...
...Boylston Hall was erected--again, largely through the efforts of Professor Cooke. At first there was only one large room on the east side of the first floor occupied by the Chemical Laboratory, but gradually the Anatomical Museum, the Department of Music, the Peabody Museum, and the Mineralogical Collection were crowded out until the chemists occupied the whole building. It was remodeled and enlarged in 1895, but in spite of this the building was again soon filled to over flowing...