Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reorganized Covent Garden Company will give performances at popular as well as grand-opera prices, in provincial cities as well as in London. Government interest is said to be largely attributable to the pretty, wordy wife of Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden. Mrs. Snowden, a capable musician, is a governor of British Broadcasting Corp...
This man who, in his own words, has "fought some good battles" is less known in this country as a statesman than as a musician. Yet it was he who in 1914 collected capital in the United States for the benefit of oppressed Poland. It was mainly due to his efforts that Wilson talked in 1917 of a "united, independent, and autonomous Poland." It was he who became Prime Minister of his native land in 1919. He shall be long remembered for giving the devotion of genius to a cause that he helped make triumphant, to an art which...
...conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra removed his cuff and jotted down on it a tune. A young journalist, who was spending his vacation traveling with the conductor and his orchestra on tour, asked for a copy of the air. At a hotel that evening the musician scribbled the song on a piece of notepaper, gave it to his admirer. The journalist liked it, learned to play it, rendered it so often that his friends later called it his song...
...choice of Koussevitzky for Boston has proved singularly happy. He is an excellent musician, although it is said he cannot read a score, has to hire pianists to teach him new music before he in turn can transmit it to his men. He has the magnetism, the energy which were necessary to rejuvenate Boston's orchestra in 1924. He has an insatiable interest in new music and a talent for playing it. His programs are indisputably the best in the country. So is his understanding of Ravel and Debussy...
...ardent Sovialist: a talented musician anda owrld renowned mathematician the professor has earned a reputation as a free-thinker. He uses a spelling system of his own invention and often entertains his lecture audiences by performing on a five stringed cello which he developed himself...