Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best Straussiana-the original sheet music of his waltzes-Vienna did not get. For years a rich Viennese railroad man, Paul Lowenberg, collected scores not only of Johann Strauss but of other 19th-Century waltz-men-Strauss's father Johann, his father's teacher and rival Joseph Lanner, his brothers Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal...
Last Sunday U. S. radio listeners heard some of the music from the Library's stacks. Howard Barlow led Columbia Broadcasting Symphony through ten waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, marches of Johann Strauss and his contemporaries. The titles of the pieces told much of Vienna's ballroom life-Electrophor polka and Motoren waltzes, written for dances of technical students; Aesculap polka and Paroxysmen waltzes, for young medicos. A quadrille on English themes contained the tune of Just Before the Battle, Mother. The pieces, some performed for the first time in the U. S., did not call for waltzing...
...University of Washington's arboretum is a lush, tree-planted, 260-acre park built by WPA, west of Seattle's exclusive Broadmoor district. It was the scene last week of a really glittering occasion. After speeches, orchestra music, ceremonies broadcast by radio, plump, close-coupled Collector of Customs Saul Haas, Seattle's Democratic patronage dispenser, lifted a pair of scissors, slashed the gauze covering of an ordinary-looking box. Out twinkled 200 fireflies...
...things about them-for example, that what makes them flash is a luminous substance called luciferin secreted in their abdomens, that most entomologists believe the flash is a mating call. Mary Ellen does not plan to be an entomologist, however. At college she is minoring in music, plans to major in journalism...
...third year in succession he has a major surplus to fight. Last year wheat was the most acute headache, year before it was cotton, this year corn. This week he had to face the music. On August 1 came due the loans of 57? a bushel which he made to farmers who put under seal part of their last year's crop...