Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through Liszt's finger-punishing Don Juan Fantasia. Manhattan concertgoers, most of whom had never heard of him, gaped in awe at his flying fingertips. Next day the sedate critic of Manhattan's New York Tribune wrote: "It was a question whether an audience composed of discriminating music lovers in this city has ever been stirred to such a pitch of excitement...
...Amen, a canon by Norris, went brilliantly, enunciation being practically as good as the Harvard Glee Club. The girls also sang acapella a madrigal by Weelkes with the skill and lightness of a few experienced singers. But Woody steals half the show when he expresses the sense of the music in his face. In the mellifluent parts of Shubert's Valsos Nobles, for instance, Woody licked his chops as if the girls were slipping him a Western over the piano . . . and did they ever respond...
...Radcliffe College Choral Society and Orchestra and the Harvard University Orchestra will give a concert, open to the public without charge, tonight at 8:30 o'clock, in the Harvard Music Building. Professor G. W. Woodworth and Malcolm H. Holmes will conduct this annual joint concert...
Marking the first appearance of these organizations this season, the concert has aroused considerable interest among music lovers for the wide range of works to be presented...
Professor Edman recalls with nostalgia his pleasant childhood and youth on Morningside Heights, the teachers who stimulated him, a few of his more picturesque students (some now stuffed shirts, some leading Communists); he writes of his travels, praises the English, meditates on music, relates an encounter with a big-shot Nazi in Greece. But the spotlight is on those amateur philosophers whom he numbers among the "Society of Itinerant Humanists." One was a French doctor who came to treat Edman's indigestion, launched instead into a discourse on Platonic philosophy. Another is his maid Maria, one of the best...