Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such devotion through long months, amongst many another work and pleasure, will our youth yet give themselves because this music and this singing frees they know not what quickening within them. In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper, pursue such endless and exacting toil. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. Everybody fights shy of such shamming. Self-expression and release are the better words--with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...
...until we saw "Mary's Ankle", both figuratively and literally, we never realized that there was in our midst a group of people so bent on convulsing an innocent audience. We came prepared to chuckle and remained to laugh hilariously. Even the orchestra waxed uproarious, and when a weary musician stoops to laughter you may be very sure the play is a "howling" success...
Boston Transcript: "Maiden' musician charges that she was shocked while raising the telephone and sues the company for $25,000." Attorneys for the defense want to know; (A) Who was at the other end of the wire? (B) Will she divide even with...
...collector, is to be played by J. C. MacDonald '26, who was the leader of the Freshman Glee Club two years ago and who since then has sung with several of the college musical clubs. Abercrombie, his man servant, is played by J. H. Wright '25, the most talented musician in the cast. He is a member of both the banjo and mandolin clubs and an able performer on the saxophone...
Last week, in Manhattan, the Women's Symphony Orchestra of America filed papers of incorporation. The capital was named at $250,000; number of players, 60; conductor, Madame Elizabeth Kuyper, Dutch musician. A month ago, in London, the British Women's Symphony Orchestra gave a concert, played Handel, Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Weber with competency. Musical people who read of these events in the press began to ask questions about women conductors, women orchestra players...