Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office attraction in the Near East is tall, sleepy-eyed, sickly Mohammed Abdul-Wahab, Egypt's premier crooner and actor. Once an unlettered tailor's assistant in Cairo, Crooner Abdul-Wahab has since amassed a fortune by composing tunes which were a hybrid of Oriental and Western music. He put the songs in screen romances and, with himself in the leading role, soon became the matinee idol of Cairo, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem and outposts...
...MUSIC : HEROIC AND MAJESTIC . . . SUCH AS CODA OR FINALE OF BEETHOVEN'S EROICA...
...Chicago music-lovers, remarkably constant in their devotion to Conductor Stock, are also remarkably devoted to the memory of Conductor Thomas. Every year since Conductor Thomas' death, a memorial concert has been held in his honor. Last week dignified 66-year-old Stock ambled to his place on the stage of Chicago's long-used Orchestra Hall to commemorate for the 34th time the death of his predecessor. Behind him sat 2,500 rapt Chicagoans, many of them oldsters who had heard their first overture played under Thomas' energetic baton. Solemnly they listened while white-haired Stock...
...hundred years ago last Monday John Knowles Paine, the founder of the University's Music Department, was born. To celebrate the anniversary of the man who, for forty-three years, was the embodiment and able champion of the College's musical tradition, Widener Library now has an eight-case display in its main hall. Appropriately chosen and arranged with taste, the exhibition contains holograph manuscripts, portraits, books, and original texts, many of which have been lent to the Library by Professor Paine's colleagues and friends. Of special note is a large, colorful portrait of Professor Paine by Caroline...
After excellent training abroad and a brief career as an organ virtuoso, Paine became director of music here in 1862. When President Eliot took over the reins in 1869, music was given an especially important role in the revised curriculum. In 1875 Paine was promoted to a full professorship, which was the first chair in music at an American university. As a composer, he was especially versatile, turning out many symphonies, tone poems, operas, overtures, and cantatas. In the present display are included copies of his "Columbus March and Hymn" for the 1893 World's Fair, his "Harvard Hymn...