Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When one Farnham Fox, a tuba player, got out of his Bayside, N. Y. apartment three months early, he offered an excuse-complaint not new to landlords-a plague of insects. Last fortnight in Flushing's Municipal Court, Musician Fox's suing landlords submitted this letter which they had sent him: "The insects you complained of are crickets and no doubt are found in most of the homes and apartments of Bayside. They are harmless, and many people enjoy their chirping; in fact, there was a poem [sic] dedicated to 'The Cricket on the Hearth...
...Nicholas M. Pette brought in a twelve-page decision. Ruled he: "While the cricket is technically an insect and a bug, it would appear from a study of his life that, instead of being obnoxious, he is an intellectual little fellow, with certain attainments of refinement and an indefatigable musician par excellence...
Vladimir Munck, as his name indicated, was an American, but he was also and primarily a musician. His father started him playing the kettledrum when he was 4; later he went abroad to study piano. He worked hard, returned to the U. S. and began to make a name for himself as a pianist. At the height of his Manhattan success Tycoon Rothstein came to Munck with a great idea: to make Manhattan music's acknowledged world capital by building and endowing a Lyceum of Music, with Munck as musical director. After many conferences, many misgivings, Munck let himself...
...Europe this winter young Werner Janssen has made a name as conductor and composer. But last week he learned that even a determined young musician cannot always rule his own actions. Bristling with energy he arrived in Berlin to conduct Rubin Goldmark's Gettysburg Requiem, a symphony by the Russian Borodin and his own Louisiana. Scarcely was he off the train when he was informed that his program had been changed for one of German music. Gettysburg had been banned. Director Lorenz Horber of the Berlin Philharmonic said, "because we are having trouble with the U. S. just...
Augustus Juilliard's money, the public was informed, had saved the life of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Author-Musician John Erskine, in his capacity as president of the Juilliard School of Music, said so. Fifty thousand Juilliard dollars had been given outright toward the $300,000 needed to guarantee another opera season (TIME, Feb. 20). Should public appeal fail to bring in the rest. Mr. Erskine implied that the Juilliard would make up the difference. Stipulations had been made, he said, to which the Metropolitan had agreed: more encouragement would be given to U. S. singers and composers; Juilliard...