Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cynic, who, using mainly Italian and German sources, is writing a political treatise on the art of deception. He believes that "the deceivers have nothing to learn from it, while the deceived have." His pupils are two Americans: Mr. W., a well-known U. S. politician and ex-jazz musician, regarded as the coming U. S. dictator, and Professor Pickup, a decayed Billy Sunday sort of fanatic, who originated "Neo-Sociology...
Represented on the program are works of Bach, Frederick the Great, Haydn, Ramean, Vivaldi, and other renowned composers. In addition to being a statesman, Frederick the Great was a zealous musician, composing extensively for and playing the flute...
...romantic setting it was when a similar operetta had its Manhattan stage opening four years ago. Certainly, admirers of the new Vienna will find much to deplore in the picture's affectionate portrait of an era when the principal effect of Revolution was that it inspired a young musician to write a march; and when the most important effect of barricades in the Vienna streets was to cause the same young composer (Fernand Gravet) to leave his wife (Luise Rainer) at home in order to enjoy an early morning drive with a full-throated opera singer (Miliza Korjus...
Using a harmonic analyser which gives a phonographic record of each sound, the scientists dissected 64 notes from the violins, played by Jascha Heifetz, world-famous musician. The artist sat in a special sound box and held each note for four or five seconds while vibrating pens wrote the delicate message on drums...
Many of the songs she has collected have been used as themes by U. S. composers. Plump precise Ethnographer Densmore started out as a conventional musician, studied piano and composition at Oberlin Conservatory and Harvard. But when, at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1892, she saw Chief Rain-in-the-Face dance with a fringe of human scalps around his coat, she really sat up and took notice...