Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget's "most extrawd'nry" experience in that bathroom and his clever solution of the mystery, which he promptly reported to Nature. Few men in England could have resolved the matter so promptly as did this inquisitive sexagenarian baronet, barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician. Sir Richard's musical ear told him that the tune he heard that evening was in E major, with A sharp substituted for A flat. "The melody," he relates, "did not slur up & down as when the wind whistles through a cranny, but changed by sharply defined steps...
...Manhattan Rocco Colonna, 33, unemployed musician, leaped to the tracks in the 42nd Street station of the new $191,200,000 Eighth Avenue Subway, opened two days before. Before a train appeared he was dragged up with a broken...
...Jackson had the band in to play for the first Easter Egg Rolling and White House Children's Party. Abraham Lincoln asked the band to Gettysburg when he made his famed address; in his time it was by Act of Congress expanded to "one Drum Major, one Principal Musician, 30 musicians for the band, 60 drummers and 60 fifers...
Across the valley from ''Taliesin" was the Hillside School, established by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts, built by him. He has restored its one big building of native stone laid flat. He will hire a faculty of a director, three assistant sculptors, a painter, a musician and several industrial technicians. Opening in October, the Taliesin Fellowship will have room for 70 apprentices at a little over $500 yearly apiece. Among them will be Manhattan Sculptress Lucienne Bloch, Peiping Architect Yen Liang and Vischer Boyd, son of a Philadelphia architect...
...From night to night thereafter he presided over such various Stadium doings as four all-Russian programs, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Albertina Rasch dancers, an all-Gershwin concert?all with the practiced versatility which has made him, if not the most exciting of maestros, a thoroughly dependable musician, one to be envied by many another less sure of his bread & butter...