Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francis Rogers '91 of New York, musician...
...Endowment Fund of Vassar College will benefit this afternoon at 4 o'clock by a concert of lute-music and troubadour songs by Mr. Thomas Wilfred, on the lawn of historic "Elmwood," the former home of James Russell Lowell, Mr. Wilfred, who is a poet, actor, and musician, will entertain with songs gleaned from the highways and byways of Europe, of both mediaeval and modern time...
...real people, acting in a real Manuel in real situations: yet they were not real people, but characterizations, showing not their normal reaction to various occurrences, but rather the thoughts and ideas in their hearts. Indeed, tow of the characters, the preacher of the streets, and the wandering musician were purely allegorical; the one representing, with his prayers and hymns, the Good Influence; the other, with his violin music, suggestive of sin, the Evil Influence. Between these two forces controlled first by one the n by the other the character of the play move on through the various episodes...
...Woods overlooks the fact that the playwright, the author, the poet, the newspaper, the musician--all shape public taste, thought and opinion. No one would begrudge any playwright for making a living by writing bedroom farces, if that be his ambitions, but there are many who object to hear the declaration that these are what they, a goodly part of the public, want. The American theatre-goer has had no real opportunity to choose between the Shakespearean drama and the modern farcical acrobatics. It is inaccurate to say that one thing is preferred to another unless both have been equally...
...reason for believing that what brings pleasure to the musician is any higher or nobler than that which brings pleasure to the normal human being," etc.; assuming of course that all musicians are either ab or sub-normal, and that no normal person can be a musician at heart, whether or not, a professional. he considers mediocrity of taste to be an excuse for itself, and that nothing further is necessarily to be desired. But good taste is the result of cultivation. Few persons are born with a natural appreciation of Wagner or Debussy, any more than for Velasquez...