Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DIED TWICE?Edwin Arlington Robinson?Macmillan ($125). The narrative of Fernando Nash, a musician, is in blank verse. He died in the spirit and, having tasted the uttermost of disillusion and defeat, is 'born again?before he dies in the flesh?to such a vision of glory as "not more than once or twice, and hardly that, in a same century" will be given to another. An average between the best and the worst that Mr. Robinson can do, it is neither masterpiece nor failure. As such, it is filled with cramped or involuted obscurities. But as such...
...practitioners and fanciers of high-brow music, and pronounced jazz to be serious art, "the only true American musical art." Many exponents of jazz put on a varnish of this same opinion, but Whiteman expressed it with a peculiar fervency. He has been schooled as-an orthodox musician and presumably desires the reverence in which orthodox musicians are held and hold themselves...
...deaf composer beat time at its first presentation in Vienna. He could not hear the applause. A musician touched him, pointed to the thousand clapping hands...
Pablo Casals is almost universally acknowledged as the greatest violoncellist alive. Kreisler went so far as to call him the "greatest musician that has ever drawn a bow." His numbers tonight will include, in addition to two obligatos for the Glee Club, Tartini's "Concerto in D," and Beethoven's "Seven Variations on a Theme by Mozart." The most notable of the Glee Club's numbers will be "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee," from Bach's "Sleepers Wake...
...Jewish liturgical and folk music. Pieces by Bortnianski, Gretchaninov, Moussorgsky, and a synagogue service by Arthur Foote are on the program. Mrs. Bertha Cushing Child will act as reader. This is one of the really good choirs of America; led by Mr. Henry Gideon, an accomplished and versatile musician of great skill and magnetism, it will give what promises to be one of the eventful concerts of the present season...