Word: musically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average person "BAND" simply means a group of musicians who play together, but to one who has a keen sense of appreciation for music, the dance band has a distinct unity...
...competent leader must carefully choose musicians for his band. Every contractor has his own idea about the type men he wants, and naturally picks them to especially fit his particular style. In so doing, he must not destroy the means of identifying his music. It isn't always easy, by the way, to find such men on short notice. Musicians, like bands, have their own style, and this is important in making up the personnel of the band. Sometimes one who plays well, doesn't fit in another capacity and vice versa; thus, all details must be carefully scrutinized...
...great settings of sacred texts have in common, beside the absolute musical value, a respectful, sympathetic attitude towards the text. This attitude is no less religious, probably, in the Symphony of Psalms or the Beethoven Mass than in the music of the sixteenth century; it is merely different. If we allow that it is legitimate to take sacred texts like the mass and the psalms from the church service to the public concert, then we must adopt a broader, more general view of the significance of the text and the sort of setting which is appropriate...
There is a cast of 175, including 50 dancers, which is made up of "cafe society," laborers, shop girls, chorines, office workers, and others. Dominated by an overhanging replica of an El, the scenes shift from drawing-rooms to manholes, street corners, Central Park, bars, offices, and stores. Music and dancing fill some of these scenes in addition to those which are purely dramatic...
...presenting its fifty-ninth production, "Too Late to Laugh," a play with music and ballet by Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, the Dramatic Club returns to its policy of productions which are wholly the work of Harvard students...