Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall, with Dusolina Giannini as guest artist. It is hard, when looking over the club's program, to know where to begin in singling out individual numbers for special comment. Perhaps one of the most striking is a composition "Ave, Verum Corpus", but Josquin Des Pres, a fifteenth century musician of the Netherlands. Coming just at a time when the technique of counterpoint was being developed, the work is made up essentially of two melodies that float like delicate silver threads now in harmony and now distinct, but always clear until finally they disappear almost imperceptibly as if wafted away...
...Jazz", speaking of his orchestra in an interview to the Crimson, backstage in the Tremont Theatre yesterday. He had just finished a performance and was resting for a moment after his strenuous three hours. Just at that moment, there squeezed angrily through the doorway of the dressing room a musician carrying under his arm a bass viol. Turning the instrument over, he showed three great cracks to the comedian. "How about getting the heat turned off in this the-alre?" he asked. But Lewis, not taken aback by this declared, "What! and have all of us and our little ladies...
Dressed in a Scotch outfit, "real Scotch", avers the musician, he will give a performance on his piccolo surpassing the wildest dreams of his audience. Those who do not believe the accepted story of the death of Lampy's tree, are inclined to accept Bob's words that "it just doubled up with excitement when I was practising...
...Keep young" is Bob's motto. "That's happiness," he said. "I was an athlete in my day. My mother wanted me to be a musician, but I wouldn't study of practice. I keep in the jollities of the students though, and am pretty lively I am comical . . . I have that gift...
...subject of their judgment may be an old man, his apogee undoubtedly passed. But the creations of Richard Strauss, are never treated casually, for his work is intensely personal and his personality is provoking. Looking upon the philosophical brow, dreamy eyes, sensitive lips, effeminate chin, one marvels how this musician can grate so on the world. There is his mercenariness. Once he invited notables from all parts of Europe to a supper given after the premiere of his ballet La Legende de Joseph, then served upon each guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish...