Word: musical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arbor campus, Tom Harmon, a gregarious, lantern-jawed six-footer with a Tarzan physique and a yen for swing music, was promptly nicknamed Terrible Tommy, or The Hoosier Hammer. As a freshman he got a D in English (he is studying for a radio career-probably sportcasting) but won the University trophy as the best allround athlete in intramural sports. Sophomore year he was tapped by Sphinx (junior honor society) and elected Pharaoh. Last week diverse sports enthusiasts named a baby and a racehorse after...
Climax of the evening came when the temple-dancers forgot about the temple, and swung out in a lowbrow song & dance from modern Bali, accompanying themselves with corny, Hawaiian-style music on a steel guitar and a couple of mandolins. Though purists complained it was not according to the Sanskrit, the bronze-skinned Balinese broke down and grinned, swayed like jamming jitterbugs, wailed a torch song or two, and showed that East is meeting West as fast as the flicker of an exported Hollywood movie...
Album of American Music for Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Conductor Hanson's anthology (mostly of familiar items by Chadwick, MacDowell, et al.) is chiefly remarkable for the first recording of a shimmering little impressionistic piece, Night Soliloquy by a 26-year-old Michigan composer named Kent Wheeler Kennan...
Album of Early Cantatas and Songs (Isabel French, soprano, and Hugues Cuenod, tenor; Technichord:*10 sides). When 18th-Century Parisian Jean Philippe Rameau took time off from writing the first modern treatise on the art of composition, he composed deft, archaic, but charmingly tuneful music. His cantata L' Impatience, along with songs and cantatas by Monteverdi, Schütz and Thomas Arne, gives French Tenor Hugues Cuenod a chance for some fancy, old-style tenor...
...believes it possible to identify this phenomenon with Humanism. It has been Dr. Potter's custom to brighten his services by such devices as using rosebuds to baptize babies. He has made his Humanists work at their rather insubstantial faith by devoting themselves to self-improvement (through art, music, etc.) and to human improvement, through cooperation with "progressive" organizations. Hence Dr. Potter chose, from among 20-odd causes recommended to Humanists, the six rosebuds represented at last week's meeting...