Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chill November night and raining. The commissary had not come up, and young Kittridge, a private soldier-musician, was lonesome. He had a letter from his girl that night; and of all the homesickness in the world the worst is the homesickness of a soldier who yearns to get back home to see his girl. He sat around the bivouac fire and on a piece of brown paper wrote that immortal song...
...country prohibit an unwelcome immigrant from landing on its shores? Can a country order an unwelcome musician to leave its shores? Both questions have been answered in the affirmative?the first by the U. S. to the disadvantage of the Japanese, the second by France to the discomfiture of Americans...
Parratt, who died last month. In former times, this dignitary had to work to hold his job: he had to compose odes for the King's birthday and for New Year's Day. Henry Purcell, England's greatest old-time musician, had to do this while he held the post, from 1672 to 1682. But Sir Edward will merely have to attend H. M. on state occasions, wearing the proper and traditional robes, trappings and official insignia of his rank...
...Taylor is not the first critic who was also a musician. Robert Schumann, it will be remembered, was also such a combination. And, strangely enough, Schumann is best beloved by many for his charming Scenes from Childhood. Whether Mr. Taylor is really a musician who writes criticism, or a critic who writes music, will perhaps be decided only 50 years from now. What is important at the present moment is that he has produced a score that may be fittingly placed on the same shelf with MacDowell's lovely little Marionettes and John Alden Carpenter's Adventures...
...allied field of literature their is likewise an absence of knowledge. Harold Bell Wright is more popular than Shakespere: Pilgrims Progress more widely read than Gene Stratton Porter. Unless refuge is to be taken in Barnum's dictum, author and producer, musician and dancer must apparently be resigned to the fate of pleasing some of the public some of the time, some of it all, of the time, but never all of it all of the time...