Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History of Music...
...second is the Forms of Expression, in which the student in required to take three courses. The forms of expression are found in courses dealing with drama, the novel, poetry, music, painting...
...symphony orchestras employ unemployed musicians. But they seldom draw crowds or move their listeners to rafter-raising applause. An exception to this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen...
Then things began to happen. Word soon spread around that the show at the Great Northern Theatre was worth the price of admission (55? top). Chicago's best critics ventured inside, came out beaming. Music lovers began to go, found that Chicago's most energetic baton-waving and most stimulating symphonic programs were being dished out by, its WPAsters...
Henry's real name was Henrietta (Handel thrown in for musical effect). Born into a family of amateur tooters and strummers in Melbourne, she attended the Presbyterian Ladies' College there, later studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory. Writing was a sidetrack which turned out to be her main line. She took the masculine pseudonym, she says, because she did not want allowances made...