Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolfe Wolfinsohn, a member of the Stradivarius Quartet of New York, announced yesterday that the University has inaugurated a new course on the history of chamber music. The celebrated first violinist declared that it will be the first course of its kind ever given in an American university...
...course will consist of series of illustrated lectures at which the members of the Quarter will speak, tracing the rise of the string quartet and of chamber music from Haydn up to the present time. The first lecture tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock will begin a series of twenty-four weakly lectures that will go on until January, when the quartet is planning to make a tour of the Pacific Coast, but will be resumed again in February...
...also planning to give monthly concerts in the Fogg and Germanic Museums and in addition several concerts in the houses although the dates for the House concerts have not been definitely get. "The playing of chamber music should be encouraged among the students who care about good music. Nothing is more rewarding than this accomplishment," stated Dr. Wolfinson...
...Republican Warsaw had held out five days more than that against the Nazi Juggernaut. With food and ammunition almost gone, with pestilence and epidemics feared, it was time for even valiant Stefan the Stubborn to change his tune, and the Mayor did so literally. Suddenly the blasts of martial music at continuous intervals from Warsaw Radio, which had meant to all Europe that the city was holding out (TIME, Sept. 25), were replaced by deep-toned funereal hymns. It was not, however, Stefan's station but Berlin which finally and authentically announced "Warsaw has capitulated unconditionally!" then burst into...
...Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity...