Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Ella Stewart Briggs, 70, mother of Clare A. Briggs, famed cartoonist; at New Rochelle, N. Y. Three other sons are: musician, writer, advertising...
...have been occupied in making mud-pies; humpty-dumpty farmyard animals with four toothpicks and a chunk of modeling clay; naive nursery etchings-graphs of the thought-rhythms of potentially delinquent minds-these, the charivari of most children's exhibitions were notably absent. Instead, one child, 6, a musician and a draughtsman who had already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black instrument buzzed like a fly in a funnel. Another virtuoso had painted from memory his conception...
During his wide travels Lieutenant Sousa has received numerous decorations in recognition of his ability as a leader and a musician. Besides being decorated with the Victorian Order of England he has received the Palms of the Academy, a French decoration and medals from other countries...
...Parker '98, music critic, in a review of the same performance, speaking of the immense amount of preparation involved, said. "In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper pursue such endless and exacting toll. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. . . .Self expression and release are the better words with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...
...great rarities of Milton bibliography, a copy of the first edition of Comus," dated 1637. The copy was brought to this country after the sale of the Bridgewater collection by the well-known, New York bookseller, Gabriel Wells. This edition, which was published by Henry Lawes, musician and friend of the poet, appeared anonymously...