Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ferruccio Busoni: Two Sonatinas (Michael Zadora, pianist; Friends of Recorded Music*: 4 sides). Agreeable pieces by a composer whose fame rests almost entirely on his piano transcriptions of Bach organ pieces...
Visitors to Magnolia Cemetery in Spartanburg, S. C., can read on a gravestone: In memory of William Walker, A.S.H. Died Sept. 24, 1875, in the 67th year of his age. He was a devoted Husband and kind Father. A consistent Baptist 47 yrs. Taught music 45 yrs. The Author of 4 Books of sacred music. He rests from his labors. He died in the triumphs of faith. Sing praises unto the Lord...
...copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In his arrangements for part-singing, Walker, like other rural teachers of the time, used queer "shape-notes" (square, triangular, diamond, round) which were supposed to make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished, for it is disgusting in the performance of sacred music, and contrary to that solemnity which should accompany an exercise so near akin to that which will...
...world's finest collections of keyboard music, especially of organ music, has been assembled by Harvard University in a new Isham Memorial Library of Organ Music in the Memorial Church, the University announced today. The Library will be dedicated as part of the ceremonies of Commencement Day, June...
Particularly designed for reference work by scholars, the library contains some six hundred volumes of keyboard music dating from about the year 1500. The complete range of organ music is covered, with the works of all major composers for the organ included. The collection is steadily growing. The new room in which it is housed is paneled in English oak. A Tintoretto painting. "The Angel Choir," was given by Mrs. Isham for the room...