Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boogie-woogie piano wizardry of Albert Ammons, who first tickled the Harvard swing palate at the Freshman Smoker, will be featured during intermissions at the Leverett House Spring Formal tonight, Evans Speer '40, chairman of the committee announced. Don Redman will make his Harvard debut, providing music from 10 to 3 o'clock...
Jeanette MacDonalds "Broadway Serenade," receiving the dubious honor of top-billing, is singularly devoid of all the elements that make a good musical. The plot, alone, places the cast in a hopeless situation, an obstacle they don't even try to surmount. For the climax, there is a dizzy succession of pits, cliffs, instruments, masks, "Lonely Hearts," and Jeanette MacDonald. It features the music of a mad genius, a combination "Johann Strauss, Becthoven, Richard Strauss, Bach, Brahms," and Walt Disney...
...concert with the Radcliffe orchestra and chorus in the Fall, and its recent Pops Concert at Adams House) should not be a good one. It is even more regrettable that this orchestra, which plays programs outstanding in originality and variety of selection, should have so little part in music around the College...
...these extra-curricular musical groups are interested in making a greater contribution to music at Harvard they could do so by giving a few free, informal performances here during the year. The Yard Concerts are the nearest approach we have to a close relationship between extra-curricular music and the College as a whole, and there is no apparent reason why their principle could not be applied more freely...
...will be the first of two free public lectures to be held this week. The second will be given by Dr. Carleton Sprague Smith '27, chief of the Division of Music of the New York Public Library. He will speak on the "History of Music in America" at 8:15 o'clock on Friday in the Music Building. The lecture will be accompanied by the chorus of 16 voices...