Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian villages from British Columbia to Panama, intrepid Investigator Densmore has collected some 2,500 Indian songs and written 20 books about them. Most of the books have been published by Washington's august Smithsonian Institution. Last week the latest of them, a monograph entitled Nootka and Quileute Music, started rolling through the Institution's presses...
...started making her records in the rear of a music store at Detroit Lakes, Minn. The following year the Smithsonian became so interested in her finds that it decided to back her in a series of expeditions. She traveled alone, making her headquarters in Indian agents' offices, jails, woodsheds and even tribal bake-ovens...
From the guardian geese around the citadel of classical music there arose last week an anguished honking. An 81-year-old stockbroker named Alfred Lewis Dennis, member of Newark's venerable Bach Choral Society, wrote a long letter, hissing with protest, to FCC Chairman Frank R. McNinch. Its painful burden: the swinging of classical music...
...ruckus even drew some notice from the pontifical pen of New York Times Music Critic Olin Downes. Said Pundit Downes: "A four-voiced fugue, in the best Benny Goodman style, would be something, though just what defies the imagination...
Prokofieff: Program of Piano Music (Played by the composer; Victor: 8 sides). A sheaf of miniatures by the trickiest of today's composers...