Word: musical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Samuel Harden Church of the Carnegie Institute is firmly in sympathy with the exclusion of German music from orchestra programs. He writes: "It is Germany who has made war upon the humanities and upon the human spirit. It is no time to urge the finer things of life while Germany pursues her international debauch of murder, outrage and plunder. Nothing but the lasting scorn of human society can sting that arrogant nation into a penitence that will make safe and good neighbors of them. For anyone, therefore, to demand polite consideration and financial support of anything German would...
...recoil, even of hatred, is human enough to be easily comprehensible, but does its stimulation into a frenzy hasten or retard our war-making and is it, therefore, to be encouraged or discouraged? We fail to see how an American, by refusing to hear an orchestra play the music of Mozart or Beethoven, either spites or weakens the Kaiser or adds a bit to our fighting strength. Why not keep our energies within effective channels. --Boston Advertiser...
...first of the series of five Expositions of Chamber Music by Mr. Arthur Whiting and his assistants will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Thursday evening, November 22, at 8.15 o'clock. The others will take place on Thursdays, December 20, January 24, February 14, and March 28. These Expositions are open, without charge for admission to all officers and students of the University, and to all members of the Naval Radio School and the Naval Cadet School...
Plans for the final contest have been almost completed. It will be a formal affair, held in the Music Building, and presided over by Professor C. Cestre, University Exchange Professor from the Faculte des Letters at Bordeaux. At that time the six men selected last evening will each be given 12 minutes to speak on either side of the question. The judges, who will probably be taken from the French and Economics Departments of the University, will be announced later...
Lehar's Viennese music blended nicely with the Bath setting, and there are some really fine songs for the fine voices of John Charles Thomas and Beth Lydy to sing--after they become confident of their lyrics. In costuming, the production grazed the point of profligacy. There were yards of silks and satins for those costumes of 1830, and what the Messrs. Shubert saved in decollete dressing they had to spend in hoop skirts. The free hand that equips Winter Garden shows did the pouring when money was put in to "The Star Gazer." In the tea scene...