Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back from Europe came Olga Samaroff, able pianist turned kindly critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote last week for her paper a very earnest article. Said she: "I doubt if anything could be more depressing to a musician of European education than to make a journey of investigation into musical conditions overseas today...
This 'was the chunky little girl, born 27 years ago in Copenhagen, Denmark, whose father wanted her to be a great musician or a prima donna. Vocal lessons bored Amelia. At six she took to the water...
When, in 1634, Musician Henry Lawes asked his friend, Pamphleteer and Poet John Milton, to run off some verses for a masque (a quasi dramatization in verse of some allegory) which John Earl of Bridgewater wished to grace some festivities, Milton complied with a "Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634," long since known as Comus. This masque so casually written to order, printed in 1637 without even the author's name, is one of the loveliest poems written in English and perhaps the best of Milton's minor works. Valued little at printing, its first (1637) edition last week...
Married. Leopold Damrosch Mannes, son of David Mannes, grandson of the late famed musician Leopold Damrosch, nephew of famed conductor Walter Damrosch; to Miss Edith Vernon Mann Simonds of East Hampton, L. I. The wedding march was composed by the bridegroom...
Gathered tightly in the pews and galleries of a Dutch church in thrifty eastern Pennsylvania, a group of disciples harkened steadfastly - not disciples of steel nor of any god, but of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician immortal. Musingly reminiscent of medieval Leipzic with Bach playing out his enrapturing arias to the misty Gothic arches of some dim cathedral, sadly reminiscent of the early years of sparse recognition, analogously reminiscent of later days, when devotees trekked across long roads to hear their master's playing, painfully reminiscent when modern renditions betrayed the ancient, were the 1200 who assembled in Bethlehem...