Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-informed on musical matters know him as a musician of outstanding merit whose littlest interpretations are fraught with beauty. So it was last week that Philadelphia greeted him cordially, even as he stood on the throne of so great a god as Leopold Stokowski, away now on his mid-season holiday; and that Manhattan paid him like honor when he brought the Philadelphia Orchestra there...
...mistress of six languages besides her own, a student of Greek, a superb calligraphist, an excellent musician. She was a connoisseur of painting and poetry. She danced, after the Florentine style, with a high magnificence that astonished beholders. Her conversation, full, not only of humor, but of elegance and wit, revealed an unerring social sense, a charming delicacy of personal perception. It was this spiritual versatility which made her one of the supreme diplomatists of history...
...recall the stares a man once gave me when I wrote down my occupation as 'composer.' Might just as well have written down 'ballet dancer.' People had the idea that music was a woman's business, like, well, like knitting. A musician and a poet had a pretty hard...
...night entertainment of the Union. In the past, these have been only short, 15 minute musicales. The longer programs are an innovation this year, and have been well supported F. K. Shuman, a pianist, has been engaged by the Union to play several solos. Mr. Shuman is a Boston musician...
...difficulty of sustaining interest in activities that require a year-round and constant attendance at rehearsals is notorious. Undeniably the Plerian Sodality has suffered from the aversion that the monotony of unvariated repetition must rouse even in the musician most given to his art, and all the more powerful in the amateur environment of a college orchestra. But the possibility of reviving enthusiasm by appeal to the desire for novelty in music has been rather completely neglected at Harvard until the regime of Mr. Slonimsky. Apparently the example of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with its successful treatment of new selections...